littleowl
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Just wondering...Any really creative ideas about Roman numerals?...Changed my name btw, got a bit tired of myrtle 
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seemeafter
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Not especially creative but we started with making a 100 square (template on Primary resources with some numbers completed) and the children used this to make a snakes and ladders board game. They also made a die with Roman numerals from a net template - opposite sides to total 7. Children enjoyed it and certainly threw up some interesting information on strategic methods for working out numerals and using patterns.
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seemeafter
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PS love the little owl pic 
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Night Garden
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I taught a weeks lesson (year 6) about the history of maths and one lesson we looked at roman numbers. We tried to write sums and compared their number system with others.
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happyhighlandcoo
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If you want to do a display at this time of year, we did birthdays. Could look up the latin words for the months too. (Did they have the same calendar then??)
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eric_the_red
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I think they had some of the months - but July and August were added in at some point by them (in honour of Julius Caesar and Augustus, I suppose) as originally September, October, November, December were the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months respectively.
They had things like the 'Ides of March' which I don't exactly understand...
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queenlit
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[/b]IDESof March comes from the Latin word: idus meaning middle.
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Knightrider
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And from my O level Julius Caesar (beware the ides of March) I seem to recall it's 17 March.
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littleowl
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Thanks everyone, great ideas!
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