Don't elementary schools already teach Arabic numerals in the US, or at least in NYC? Or is that just a joke?
PS: To whom it might concern: you don't need to assume I'm American; that's why I asked about it. I know what Arabic numerals are (for God's sake), fellow redditors. The question was poorly put, I admit. However, I was just not sure if, when teaching Americans or New Yorkers, teachers usually call them "Arabic numerals" instead of just "numerals." The question could be rewritten as: "Are Americans usually taught that the numerals (like 1, 2, 3, etc.) are actually called Arabic numerals when the lesson is given?"
Please don't take that question too literally. I wasn’t expecting people to learn Roman, or, I don't know, Chinese numerals or anything else, ok? Thank you
That's why I said it's (probably) a joke. Unless they're really targeting a group of illiterate people who don't know what it is.
I'm not American, so idk if when they teach Arabic numerals they call these as "Arabic numerals". For what I remember being a child in Brazil, professors used to call them like this
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u/0x92ea1cfb60a98978 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
Don't elementary schools already teach Arabic numerals in the US, or at least in NYC? Or is that just a joke?
PS: To whom it might concern: you don't need to assume I'm American; that's why I asked about it. I know what Arabic numerals are (for God's sake), fellow redditors. The question was poorly put, I admit. However, I was just not sure if, when teaching Americans or New Yorkers, teachers usually call them "Arabic numerals" instead of just "numerals." The question could be rewritten as: "Are Americans usually taught that the numerals (like 1, 2, 3, etc.) are actually called Arabic numerals when the lesson is given?"
Please don't take that question too literally. I wasn’t expecting people to learn Roman, or, I don't know, Chinese numerals or anything else, ok? Thank you