Elementary Math - BSc08

What are Nominal Numbers ?

Numbers used to name something eg. Blk 543, a bus number 963 or your IC No. 7612345B.

How we have often mistaken the bus numbers to be nine hundred and sixty three, instead of "9" "6" "3".





What are Ordinal Numbers ?

Ordinal numbers are used very often to label the position of children lined up in a row, eg. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.

In the picture below children can also learn to count from the 2nd person (Sam) and also backwards in position, to determine how many children are before Sam. Thus ordinal numbers can be used children a different way of understanding number counting.

Marina  Ho - BSc08
Seed Institute