January 15, 2022
How high have you ever counted? The cool thing is that once you learn 1 through 10 and every set of 10 - that's 20, 30. 40, up to 90 and 100 - after that you can make new numbers really easily, starting with 101. Then once you reach ten hundreds, or a thousand, you start all over again with 1,001! So our friend Ajax L. asked, what's the highest anyone has bothered to count out loud? A guy named Jeremy Harper did count out loud all the way to 1 million back in 2007. He started on June 18 and finally finished on September 14; he had to say more than 11,000 numbers a day!
Wee ones: Can you count up to your age? Try it! How much farther can you go?
Little kids: How many numbers can you count? Bonus: If you count off every other number to go higher, starting with 2 and 4, what are the next 4 numbers you say?
Big kids: Bigger numbers take longer to say. Can you say the number 2,386 out loud? Bonus: If you tried counting from June 18 to September 14, how many days would you count including the first and last? (Hint if needed: What if you went to Sept. 18? June has 30 days, while July and August each have 31.)
