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Math Haiku: Number

September 2, 2015

A haiku defining 'number', with a small illustration.

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Free for classrooms, worksheets, slides and other non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Ben Orlin.

Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015-09-02-math-haiku--math-haiku-number/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Number: "naked quantity / defined not by its units / but by lack thereof" [a 5 with arms]

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