News letter

The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to use mathematics in an extensive setting. Their system came from base ten and this was probably because of the number of fingers and toes. In later years the Greeks would use the abstract qualities of math, but it appears the Egyptians were only concerned with the basics of numbers. For example while the Greeks might actually use see and think the number six, the Egyptians would need concrete items like six sphinxes. Egyptian numbers were represented by symbols in the following way: a rod for the number one, a heal bone for ten, a snare for 100, a lotus flower for 1,000, a bent finger for 10,000, a burbot fish for 100,000, and a kneeling figure for 1,000,000. From todays time this

Egyptian Arithmatic (math before our time)'


Multiplying and division

When it came time to multiply is when the Egyptians had problems using their system. They over came this by coming up with a very dumb solution. Instead of multiplying, the Egyptians would simply double one of the numbers and add the numbers, which were being doubled to equal the other portion of the problem. Why couldn’t they just be like any other civilization and get a little more detailed with their number system? Division could be done in the reverse way. 
 for example when dividing 132 by 11, the ancient Egyptians would pose the question that has to be multiplied by 11 to equal 132

Egyptian Arithmatic (math before our time)'


Counting Glyphs

1 is shown by a single stroke.
10 is shown by a drawing of a hobble for cattle.
A coil of rope represents 100.
1,000 is a drawing of a lotus plant.
A finger represents 10,000.
100,000 by a tadpole or frog
1,000,000 is the figure of a god with arms raised above his head.

Fractions

The Egyptians also worked with fractions. The symbol for fractions was an oval written over the denominator. Nothing was written in the numerator's position because all of the fractions in the Egyptian system used one. For example say an Egyptian wanted to write 7/8 he would have to write 1/2+1/4+1/8.
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Introduction


Conclusion

This is how division, multiplication, and addition firs came to be.
To me this is bogus because mostly none of the solutions to the math was exactly accurate but I guess you have to start somewhere.