I am interested in having as many different possible shapes there are to represent the digits 0 - 9. So far I only have the following:
0 = plate, hula-hoop, tyre, an egg
1 = pencil, pole, spear
2 = swan, clothes iron
3 = Mc Donald’s sign, bum, boobs, bird in flight
4 = sailboat
5 = hook
6 = golf club, cherry
7 = Ice Hockey Stick, Highway streetlight, gallows, air sock, boomerang, axe, scythe, diving board, crane (one more to go!)
8 = scaletrix track, hour-glass, curvy woman
9 = balloon on string, fetus
I am aware of Errol’s 2 digit number-shaper system but I am only interested in building up as many single-digit number images as possible.
Can anyone add ‘visual images’ for single-digit numbers to those I have already listed please?
My idea is to accumulate as many as these single-digit images as possible to see whether they can be used as ‘modifiers’ or ‘enhancers’ in developing compound image scenery to generate even bigger numbers. I am needing at least 10 different images for each single digit number. For example my 7’s could be:
I am only needing 1 more image for my “number 7” representations to get me to the ‘magical’ number of 10 I need for each single-digit number! My single-digit for 0 (Zero) is complete though:
Small trip down memory lane… that’s the number my aunt did for us (so lots of Disney characters and pets)… you know I didn’t even realized it was a memorization technique at the time.
Otherwise I’d say
1=Gandalf’s staff
9=Chicken leg
8=could be Olaf instead of Hedwig, hourglass
7=bend pipe, chimney from old steam train
5=snake, water hose
0=fish bowl (too small with depressed goldfish), soccer ball
(Sorry for multiple edits, writing on this forum on mobile is a pain)
Those are fantastic images! Exactly the type of things I am looking for. I particularly like the ‘4’ those flamingo legs make and the stork eating a frog is priceless! LOL!
Hmm now I kind of want to develop my own shaper system…
Coming spontaneously to mind…
0 could be a frisbee
2 I also see the head of a prancing pony
3 I see half a butterfly , or a galaxian head (from the comic scrameustache)
7 sorting hat (worn sideways), so 1 could be any wand (Voldemort’s, Dumbledore’s, etc… And if you go on with a harry potter theme I’d see a death eater mask for 0 (add eyes and stuff inside)
8 could be glasses (when the person does this thing where they take it off to chew on one of he arms, eew)
6 cherry
A matriochka could be 8 or 0 depending on how see the shape. I kind of like it for 0, because you have lots of zero inside, a daruma would definitely be a 0
0 empty daruma, 10 daruma with one eye, 100 the person fulfilled their goal and painted the second eye… (1 being the pen)
I like your drawings. Simple enough to convey the shapes of the numbers and invoke a ‘mental image’ but more sophisticated than where I operate which is at “matchstick men”. You have a definite talent at drawing
6 x 24 = 12_ and _24 = 144. Cool trick!
It’s not instant recognition, though, which I think is the point of the shaper system (subject of this thread), and it seems too complicated for young children. But as an adult I do appreciate it.
, or a galaxian head (from the comic scrameustache)
