Little Geek Girl lived in Switzerland for 15 months. She refused to speak German, but she's acquired some European habits with regards to numbers.
Here in the U.S. when we count to three with our fingers, we first hold up our index finger, than our middle finger, and then our ring finger.
Here's LGG demonstrating the European way (thumb, index finger, middle finger).
She counts with her fingers the European way about 50% of the time.
Numbers are also written a little differently. The one has a little serif, and the seven has a line through it. Here's some of her handiwork done at kindergarten.
I think her numbers are okay for kindergarten, but they might think differently in first grade.
3 comments:
Beautiful numbers!
I think Grandpa Kenyon taught his kids to show three as pointer, middle, little fingers extended, thumb and ring finger touching. (I'd verify that with my source, but he's still sleeping.)
Now I've checked my source, and he doesn't remember counting that way at all! LOL! I wonder where I saw it?
I think you will find that only Americans do it your way...
It isn't always that the Europeans are different you know, mostly it is you that is different.
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