Did You Ever Wonder How Ancient Egyptians Lived And Created

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Term Paper Title	Did You Ever Wonder How Ancient Egyptians Lived And Created
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Did you ever wonder how ancient Egyptians lived and created
math? How adding, subtracting, multiplying, division, fractions,
and all of that started?  I’ll tell you right now, that it was not
as easy as you might think.  It took a lot of progress to create
math.  Come and read a little more and I’ll tell you all about it
.....
     In that time, people thought of gods for everything.  For
instance, children knew sun god Ra sailed a boat across the
sky everyday and one through water under earth during dark
hours.  Pretty strange, huh?  They also thought that the boats
were stars! I know that it may seem weird now, but everyone
has their own beliefs.
     They had a number of reasons to use math.  The
Egyptians needed to take advantage of the Nile, so they
invented irrigation for their own uses.  To measure the flood,
they made mathematical formulas.  And to sail on the Nile,
they had to use math to make the boats.  They sure had a lot
of uses for math in those days.
     Not everybody in ancient Egypt learned math.  In fact, not
even half of the population learned math.  It was only usually
studied by high government people like priests and government
officials.  The knowledge came from needs- the government
does taxes and the priests calculated the actions of the Nile
god Hapi.  The kids were not taught math either, even the boys.
     They had, basically every unit of math.  They had adding,
subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and even fractions.
     But the Egyptians didn’t use numbers like we do today.
They used symbols.  Symbols were used to count with.
Egyptians used different for hundreds and units.  And
Egyptians didn’t just add like 2+2.  Nooo, they wrote an answer,
let’s say, 1,492, like this:


Pretty strange, isn’t it?  Could you ever imagine us writing in
symbols?  I couldn’t ever.  This how Egyptians wrote ones: ||||
10’s:     100’s:     1,000’s:       10,000’s:      100,000’s:
1,000,000’s:

     The ancient Egyptians also had other various kinds of
math, not just...

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