When to use Chinese numerals? When to use Arabic numerals? Be careful of your child's exams.
Answer:
(1) There are 6 lollipops in the picture.
(2) From left to right, the orange lollipop is the fifth.
According to the "Learning and Teaching and Assessment" in the Primary School Mathematics Teaching Resource Booklet of the Education Bureau:
Cardinality:
Generally used to represent the number of objects in a group.
For example, 3 orange indicates that the number is 3.
Ordinal:
Used to indicate the order. For example, the first is "one."
"Ordinal number" indicates the order of objects, usually in Chinese numerals."Cardinal number" indicates the number of objects, usually expressed in Arabic numerals. Under the framework of this topic, students of different grades will generally be taught to understand the difference between "ordinal number" and "cardinal number".
Source: HK01