Originally Posted by MumOfThree
I was not taught any other base but 10, I'm not sure I even encountered the concept before adulthood! DH was. But I suspect that was in NZ.
These days children in the UK don't meet it either (until they meet base 2 in the context of computer science if they're lucky); the Dienes MAB stuff I was talking about was briefly fashionable in the 70s, and even then not many schools used it. Still, it's great stuff to do with children who'd enjoy it!

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