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This document presents two activities related to the history and development of numbering systems. The first activity tells the story of a shepherd who develops a system to count his sheep using pots and marks, which eventually leads to the positional numbering system. The second activity explains that most civilizations have used the decimal system and briefly describes other systems such as the Babylonian and the Mayan.
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