Suitable for KS3/4 Marcus du Sautoy explores the diverse world of numbers. In this programme, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explains how humans have developed numbers for their mathematical needs.
We learn that humans first began counting with whole numbers only, but then needed to invent others as their mathematical skills increased. Marcus meets with Dr Eleanor Robson who reveals that zero, as we know it, was invented by Indian mathematicians and that it has revolutionised the way maths is done.
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I like this as a way of introducing some extension/enrichment and 'general knowledge' type maths. Students will never be tested on their knowledge of infinities but this is explained in a nice, understandable way. I also like the fact that the history of zero is interwoven too.
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