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Este es el Blog del Programa Bilingüe francés-inglés del IES Arzobispo Valdés-Salas.  En nuestro Blog encontrarás diferentes artículos de interés en las dos lenguas así como actividades  realizadas con el alumnado en clase y enlaces a páginas que nos han parecido interesantes. ¡Bienvenidos!
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NATURAL NUMBERS

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In Mathematics, natural numbers are the numbers that we use for counting objects (one, two, three…) and ordinal numbers for ordering objects (first, second, third…). Cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers are both natural numbers. In ancient Greece, the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (570 BC-495 BC) and his followers attributed divine, mystical powers to numbers. They believed that numbers governed everything, from the movements of the planets to music. They also believed that some numbers were more divine or mystical than others and gave special meanings to different numbers. They believed, for example, that a number could represent justice or wisdom. The holiest number of all was "tetractys" or ten, a triangular number composed of the sum of one, two, three and four. It is a great tribute to the Pythagoreans' intellectual achievements that they deduced the special place of the number 10 from an abstract mathematical argument rather than from something as ...
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Ancient calendars

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The ancient Egyptian calendar The ancient Egyptians were the first civilization to create a calendar which organised the year into 365 days . This calendar is believed to date back to the 3 ͬ ͩ millennium BC. The year consisted of 12 months of 30 days each one plus five holy days. The months were divided into three weeks of ten days each. The Egyptian year was divided into three seasons of four months. These seasons were: The season of Akhet (Inundation) The season of Peret (Growth-Winter) The season of Shemu (Harvest-Summer)   The Egytian calendar was known to be imperfect as it was almost a quarter of a day shorter than the true solar year. Image representing the sky and the constellations The ancient Greek calendar The Greek calendar includes a variety of dating systems used by the several city-states in the time of classical Greece . There was no uniform calendar imposed upon all of the Hellenic territory. Each polis had i...
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