Understanding natural numbers

by Ethel Ashe-Frear

Universal Numbers. Numbers play a big part in our lives. We have a social security number; a bank account number; pin numbers; tag numbers; house numbers; box numbers. Our whole life is run by some sort of number. ...read more

by Asahatter

Natural numbers are the whole numbers that we use when counting items. So, 1, 2, 42, 69, 3,256 and 9 billion are all examples of natural numbers. Some mathematicians consider zero to be a natural number, but the di...read more

by Allen Teal

Natural numbers are so named because they parallel what is found naturally. You can have three trees in your yard, but you can't have -3 trees in your yard. Sometime in the past, someone figured out that you could have 0...read more

by Prodigal Samurai

Firstly let me start off with a definition of what is a natural number. Definitions tend to help significantly with the understanding of a topic. A natural number can either be an element of the set {1, 2, 3, ...}, which i...read more

by Mary Paliescheskey

Natural numbers are the counting numbers. These are the numbers that we learn in kindergarten. That is why they are termed natural numbers; they have to do with counting or ranking of objects (first, second, third). The na...read more