Proverbs with mathematical terms. Mathematical proverbs

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Mathematics in proverbs and sayings.

The world is built on the power of numbers.
Pythagoras
0 -
Zero without a stick. - A worthless, ignorant person
Zero attention. - Complete indifference, indifference on the part of someone to someone or something.
Reduce to zero, reduce to zero. - To deprive all meaning, meaning.
1 -
One is plowing, and seven are waving their hands.
One leg is here, the other is there.
One wise head is worth a hundred heads.
It is better to see once than hear a hundred times.
One bee does not carry a lot of honey.
Once does not count.
In one place, and the stone will be overgrown with moss.
The coward dies a hundred times, and the hero dies once.
Business before pleasure. - A reminder to a person who, having fun, forgets about business.
The first pancake is lumpy. - It is said to justify the unsuccessful start of a new, difficult business.
2-
Two of a Kind.
As two drops of water.
Between the devil and the deep sea.
On two fronts.
Can't connect two words.
One head it's good, but two better.
Two inches from the pot.
A double-edged sword.
Miser pays twice.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Tuck into both cheeks.
Grandma said in two. - They say when they doubt the implementation of what they suggest.
Second wind -
Two deaths cannot happen, and one cannot be avoided. -

The inevitable will happen anyway, whether you risk it or not.
An old friend is better than two new ones. - It is said when they want to emphasize the loyalty, devotion and independence of an old friend.
For one beaten two unbeaten give. - They say when they understand that punishment for mistakes is beneficial to a person, because this is how he gains experience.
Of two evils (choose) the lesser. - (Aristotle)
3-
It takes three years to learn to be industrious; to learn laziness - only three days.
Getting lost in three pines. - Not being able to figure out something simple, not being able to find a way out of the simplest difficulty.
Three inches from the pot. - Very short, small stature.
With three boxes. - A lot (say, promise, lie, etc.)
Third-hand, third-hand. - Through intermediaries, not from the eye-witnesses (learn, receive, hear).
They have been waiting for the promised three years. - They speak jokingly when they do not believe in the speedy fulfillment of the given promises.
4-
The hut cannot be cut without four corners.
The horse has four legs, and even then it stumbles.
On all four sides. - Anywhere, wherever you want (go, drive away, let go).
Live within four walls. - 1. Without communicating with anyone, being alone. 2. Without leaving your home.
5-
Like the back of my hand. - Know very well, thoroughly, thoroughly.
From the fifth to the tenth. - The expression is used instead of a detailed listing, the name of something.
The fifth wheel in the cart. - Superfluous, unnecessary person in any business.
6-
This figure is an acrobat:
Now six, then nine.
7-
Seven with a spoon - one with a bowl.
Onion for seven ailments.
Over the seven seas.
I don't fight myself, I'm afraid of seven.
Up the mountain - then seven are dragged, and from the mountain, and one will push.
Behind seven seals. - It means something incomprehensible, hidden, inaccessible to understanding, understanding.
Seven spans in the forehead. - A very wise, intelligent, outstanding, talented person.
Seventh water on jelly. - A very distant relative.
Up to a sweat. - Work to the point of extreme fatigue, complete exhaustion.
Seven miles to heaven. - A lot to promise, to say a lot.
Seven don't expect ONE. - So they say when they start a business without someone who is late, or with a reproach to someone who makes many wait for themselves.
Seven troubles - one answer. - It speaks of the determination to do something more risky, dangerous in addition to what has already been done.
Try on (measure) seven times, cut once. - Before you do something serious, think it over carefully, foresee everything. It is a good advice to think about all possible options before starting any business.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. - Without an eye, without supervision, without supervision.
Seven wonders of the world. - In ancient times, seven buildings were called seven wonders of the world, striking in their grace.
8-
Spring and autumn - there are eight weather per day.
The eighth wonder of the world. - The expression is used in the meaning of something extraordinary, grandiose, but sometimes in an ironic sense.
9-
The ninth wave. - A stormy, strong manifestation of something formidable: the highest rise, takeoff.
For distant lands, in distant (thirty)
kingdom. - Expressions often found in Russian folk
fairy tales. Far away = 27 (3-9). In the old days, the score was nines. Then they came to another system - counting in tens; therefore, next to the first expression, the second is placed, with the word "thirty" (that is, three times ten).
According to some sources: 27 diameters of the Earth is the distance to the Moon. Therefore, the expression "far-off kingdom" really means "very far away."
10-
Tenth case. - Not so important; is completely irrelevant.
Not a cowardly ten. - Brave, not fearful.
From the fifth to the tenth. - incoherently, inconsistently, omitting details (tell, report, speak, etc.).
Time is more valuable than money.
To win time, you need to appreciate the seconds.
Time will teach you what to do.
Time that the wind, you miss - you will not catch up.
Business - time, fun - an hour.
Without a watch, you live in a forest.
Work like a clock.
Stand like a sentry.
Rush hour.
Hour by hour is not easier.
A teaspoon per hour.
If you lost a minute, you will also lose an hour.
Know the price of the minutes, and the count of seconds.
The minute is not expensive because of the debt, but because it is short.

Leafing through the collections of proverbs of the Russian people, we will find many expressions with numbers and numbers, the names of ancient measures of length and weight, and other mathematical concepts. All these Proverbs and sayings can be classified as "Mathematical".

We still use numbers, but the old designations for measures of length and weight have sunk into oblivion. We no longer measure the distance in yards and spans, we do not mark the mass in the spools. But expressions are not at all outdated, but firmly entered our speech. And today, just as before, we can call a tall person “Kolomna mile”, and about a clever one, say that he has “seven spans in his forehead”.

Find and study mathematical proverbs and sayings (where old Russian measures and mathematical expressions are used), books help us. So, to compile this article, we used the following literature: "Encyclopedia of Folk Wisdom" (by N. Uvarov) and "Proverbs of the Russian people" (by V. I. Dal).

Proverbs about old measures of length

The following ancient measures of length are found in mathematical proverbs and sayings:

Elbow = 38 cm to 46 cm
Span = about 18 cm
Step = 71 cm
Arshin = about 72 cm
Verst = 1066.8 m
Top = 44.45 mm
Mile = about 7.5 km
Fathom = 213.36 cm

Himself with a marigold, and a beard - from the elbow.
Lived from the elbow, and lived with the nail.
The nose is about the elbow, and the mind is the size of a fingernail.
Say it on the nail, and they will retell it from the elbow.

Seven spans in the forehead.
An arshin beard, but an inch of mind.
You lose an inch, you lose a fathom.

He took a step and conquered the kingdom.
No step back!
Go by leaps and bounds.

Each merchant measures it at his own yardstick.
Sits, walks, as if an arshin has swallowed.
Don't measure it by your yardstick.
Arshin for a caftan, and two for patches.
You are an inch from business, but it is an arshin from you.

Kolomenskaya verst. (joking name for a very tall man)
Moscow is a mile away, but near to the heart.
Love is not measured by miles.
From word to deed - a whole mile.
A mile is closer, a penny is cheaper.
Seven miles is not a hook for a young man.
You lag a mile behind - you catch up by ten.
Lies seven miles to heaven, and everything is in the forest.
They were looking for a mosquito seven miles away, and a mosquito was on the nose.
Stretch a mile, but don't be simple.
Write about other people's sins in yardsticks, and about your own - in lowercase letters.
You can see him a mile away.

One inch ahead - and everything is already dark.
A beard with inches, and words with a bag.
Two tops (or half a top) from the pot, and already a pointer.
Her Saturday through Friday climbed two inches.
Three inches from the pot.

Seven-league steps.

Slanting fathom in the shoulders.
Log to log - fathom.
You will yield a span, and will pull you a fathom.
You are from the case for a span, and it is from you for a sazhen.
A span by a span, but not a sazhen.
We lived a fathom, and lived out a span.

Proverbs about old measures of mass

The following ancient measures of mass are found in mathematical proverbs and sayings:

Spool = about 4.3 g
Pounds = 40 lbs = 16.3 kg
Pound = 409.5 g = 96 spools

Small spool but precious.
Health (fame) comes in zolotki, and leaves in poods.
The spool is small, but they weigh gold, the camel is big, and they carry water on it.
Trouble (grief, misfortune, shortage) comes in poods, and leaves with zolotniks.

The pood protects the grain.
You recognize a person when you eat a pound of salt with him.
Hay - for poods, and gold - for spools (that is, each thing has its own definite value).
For this, you can put a pood candle.
Your own spool of someone else's pood is more expensive.
The thin one falls in pounds, and the good one drops by spools.
You will recognize a person as long as you eat a pound of salt with him.
You will get the grief off your shoulders, and you will choke on the zolotnikov ones.

That's a pound! (expresses disappointment or surprise)
This is not a pound of raisins for you (a joking expression about some difficult matter)
A pound of pudu must yield "(that is, one must have respect for the elders, the more knowledgeable, experienced).
Find out how much a pound is dashing.

Proverbs about old measures of volume

The following old measures of volume are found in mathematical proverbs and sayings:

a cup
bucket
Cup
ladle
bottle

A glass of wine will add to the mind, and the second and third will drive you crazy.
You can't kill the wind with buckets, you can't catch the sun in a bag.
Great warrior drinking a glass of wine.
Some are a glass, some are two, and a fascist is hit on the head with a stone.
Whoever has a ladle has a fat.
A bottle of vodka and a herring tail.
Sin with a nut, a kernel with a bucket.
Buckets will not measure the wind.
To measure the wind - there are not enough buckets.

Others:

Tithing (measure of land area - tenth).

Crane measured tithes, says: true.

Dozen (old measure of the collective count of similar objects, equal to twelve)

Dozen goods (simple goods, regular goods, unoriginal goods)
They put your brother thirteen for a dozen, and even then they don't. (offensive characteristic of a lazy, incapacitated employee)

Proverbs about measure

Without measure and bast shoe you can’t weave.
Above measures and the horse does not gallop.
Know by the measure of a master.
Don't measure it by your yardstick.
They love to count money, and bread to measure.
The account will not lie, and the measure will not deceive.
Some bast shoes weave without measure, but they fall on every foot.
Try on seven times, cut once.
Measure is faith in every work.
Grandmother measured with a hook, but waved her hand: to be in the old way, as set.
Without weight, without measure, there is no faith.
Measure at your own yardstick.
When rye, then measure.
They were measuring devil and Taras, their rope broke.
Everything needs a measure.
Measure at your own yardstick.

Figures in proverbs and sayings

There are more than a hundred proverbs and sayings in which numbers and numbers are encountered. We have collected the most interesting and well-aimed of them in one of the articles. Since there are a lot of mathematical proverbs with numbers, we will not repeat ourselves. You can find them in this article:

Mathematical concepts

Not worth a penny, but looks like a ruble.
A lot of forest - take care, a little forest - don't cut it, if there is no forest - plant it.
Where there are many birds, there are few insects.
Know more, say less.
The more hands, the easier the work.
The right hand is stronger than the left.
A joke is a minute, and a business is an hour.
Fewer words are sweet, many words are bitter.

Money loves the account.
For counting and we have a head on our shoulders.
Know the price for the minutes, the count for the seconds.
Money is an account, and bread is a measure.
If you know the score, you can count it yourself.
The word is faith, bread is a measure, money is an account.
In the end, not counting a thousand.
Money is strong. The counting hundred is full.
Once does not count.
In three counts.

Count money in your pocket, not someone else's.
Count, woman, chickens in the fall, and man, measure bread in the spring.
To count - after not to bother.

The numbers are taken from the ceiling.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Numbers are remembered well not by smart ones, but by greedy ones.

How much white day, so much black night.
How many heads, so many minds, and answer to one head.
How much you borrowed, you will give so much.
How many years, how many winters, but got together - and there is nothing to talk about.
No matter how much I live, I will not be young twice.
No matter how much you live, you can't worry about everything.
How much you work, you earn so much.
How many? A carriage and a small cart.

Interpretation of some mathematical proverbs

One is like a finger. (a person who has no relatives, friends or relatives)
Don't point your finger at people! Wouldn't have pointed you to the sixth! (if you accuse someone, point your finger at him, then you may be accused of something much worse or do it in an even more rude manner)
Two inches from the pot, and already a pointer. (a young man who has no life experience, but presumptuously teaches everyone)
Her Saturday through Friday climbed two inches. (about a sloppy woman who has a long skirt undershirt)
Seven spans in the forehead. (about a very smart person)
Himself with a marigold, and a beard with an elbow. (about a man of unenviable appearance, but enjoying authority due to his mind, social status or life experience. Before Peter the Great, a beard was considered an honorary attribute of a man. A long, sleek beard served as a sign of wealth and nobility)
Each merchant measures it at his own yardstick. (everyone judges any case unilaterally, based on their own interests).
Sits, walks, as if an arshin has swallowed. (about an unnaturally straight person)
An arshin beard, but an inch of mind. (about an adult, but a stupid person)
Slanting fathom in the shoulders. (broad-shouldered, tall person).
He sees three arshins in the ground. (about an attentive, perspicacious person from whom nothing can be hidden)
Log to log - fathom. (on the accumulation of stocks, wealth through savings)
Kolomenskaya verst. (a joking nickname for a tall man, hero, giant)
Moscow is a mile away, but near to the heart. (this is how the Russian people characterized their attitude to the capital)
Love is not measured by miles. A hundred miles is not a hook for a young man. (distance cannot be an obstacle to love)
You lag a mile behind - you catch up by ten. (even a small gap is very difficult to overcome_
Seven-league steps. (fast growth, good development of something)
Small spool but precious. (so they say about something insignificant in appearance, but very valuable)
You will get the grief off your shoulders, and you will choke on the spool. (even the smallest danger should not be neglected)
Hay - for poods, and gold - for spools. (each thing has its own specific value)
You will recognize a person as long as you eat a pound of salt with him. (it takes a long time to understand another person)

Card index of mathematical proverbs and sayings

Proverb-

short expression,

Written in simple folk language,

often has rhyme and rhythm.

One the bee will train a little honey.

One the wise head is worth a hundred heads.

One not a warrior in the field.

One the goose will not trample the field.

One you don't clap your hands.

One you can't tie a knot with your hand.

Lazy person twice works.

Per two If you chase hares, you won't catch a single one.

An old friend is better than new ones two.

Two you can't put on a pair of sandals right away

One head is good, but two- better.

An old friend is better than new ones two.

Mind is good, eh two better.

Older brother like second father.

The price for a braggart - three penny.

A friend nearby is better than three in the distance.

If one stove has three the cooks are jostling - the dinner is burning.

Do not recognize a friend in three of the day - find out in three of the year.

Without four x corners of the hut is not cut.

Four the cardinal points on the four seas are laid.

One beehive is a beehive, and five- apiary.

One trouble il five troubles, but all the same help - no.

There are three cows, calving - will be six.

They lost the bast shoes, looked around the yards: there were five, but now six.

Seven measure once, cut once.

One sheep seven shepherds.

One with a bipod, and seven with a spoon.

Have seven nannies a child without an eye.

Autumn - change eight.

Martok - dress eight parcels.

Nine a person is like a dozen.

Nine they pulled the mice together - they pulled the lid off the tub.

What can't you do alone, they will ten.

Think ten time, say one.

Bydialectka -

figurative expression, metaphor.

Sayings are used in sentences

to give a vivid artistic color to the facts,

things and situations.

One the leg is here, the other is there.

One for all and all for one.

Tuck into both cheeks.

Two boots - a pair.

How two water drops.

From the pot two vershok.

Lost in three pines.

Cry in three brook.

To live in four walls.

Four the cola is driven in, but the sky is covered.

Know as yours five fingers.

Again twenty five.

Three hairs in six rows are stacked.

Seven troubles - one answer.

Seven a span in the forehead.

Seven Fridays a week.

Seventh water on jelly.

For the next autumn, years through eight.

Nine lives of a cat.

Per distant lands in distant(thirty) kingdom.

Bear ten songs and everything about honey.

Card index of mathematical riddles

MYSTERY -

small genre of folklore, which is

"encrypted" figurative description of the subject,

phenomenon or situation.

In winter and summer in one color. (Spruce)

Antoshka stands on one leg. (mushroom)

Many hands, one leg (tree).

Spins on one leg, carefree, cheerful.

Dancer in a colorful skirt, musical ... (whirligig).

Two ends, two rings, and a stud in the middle. (Scissors.)

Two houses - teplushki

presented to Tanya (mittens).

He has two wheels and a saddle on a frame

there are two pedals at the bottom, twisting them with their feet (bicycle).

He has colored eyes, not eyes, but three lights,
he in turn looks at me from above (traffic light).

Four brothers stand under one roof (table).

Although we have four legs,
We are not mice or cats.
Although we all have backs
We are not sheep or pigs.
We are not horses, even on us
You have sat down hundreds of times (chairs).

Two mothers have five sons,
one name to all (fingers).

And buzzes and flies
There are six legs
But no hooves. (bug)

Every day at seven in the morning
I pop: get up porrrrrra! (alarm)

Don't you know me?
I live at the bottom of the sea.
A head and eight legs, that's all I am - .... (octopus).

I have workers
Hunters help in everything.
They don't live behind a wall -
Day and night with me:
A whole dozen,
Loyal guys! (fingers)

What are these soft SQUARES
Give fairy tales to all the guys?
On the bed like girlfriends
Chubby cheeks ...
(Pillows.)

The sky is like a blue house
There is one window in it:
Like a ROUND window

It sparkles in the sky ...
(The sun.)

Card index of math counters

READER -

rhythmically pronounced rhyme,

as a result of which

places of participants in children's games

Once upon a time there were a hundred children.
Everyone went to kindergarten
Everyone sat down to dinner
Everyone ate a hundred cutlets,
And then they went to bed -
Start counting again.

There lived one burbot in the river,
Two ruffs were friends with him,
Three ducks flew to them
Four times a day
And taught them to count -
One, two, three, four, five.

Here are the mushrooms on the meadow
They are wearing red caps.
Two mushrooms, three mushrooms,
How much will be together? -
Five.

The seagull warmed up the kettle.
I invited eight seagulls:
"Come all for tea!"
How many seagulls, answer!

Seagulls lived at the pier
The river shook them with a wave.
One, two, three, four, five -
Help me count them!

We shared an orange

There are many of us, but he is one.

This slice is for a hedgehog,

This is a slice for a swift,

This is a slice for ducklings

This slice is for kittens,

This slice is for the beaver,

And for the wolf - the peel ...

He is angry with us - trouble !!!

Run away, who where!

Follow me, say:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
I'll go to visit my grandmother,
And on Thursday and Friday
The sleds are rolling towards the house.
Saturday - Sunday
Cookies are baked on this day.
One-two, one-two, one-two-three!
Repeat the whole counting room!

One, two, three, four, five,

We are going to play.

Forty flew to us

And she told you to drive.

The countdown begins:

“A jackdaw has sat down on a birch tree,

Two crows, a sparrow,

Three magpies, nightingale.

Tomorrow will fly from the sky

Blue-blue-blue whale.

If you believe - wait and wait

If you don't believe - come out! "

One, two, three, four, five,

The sun needs to get up.

Six seven eight nine ten,

The sun is sleeping, there is a month in the sky.

Run who where,

Tomorrow is a new game.

Two bears sat

On a fake bitch

One read the newspaper

Another was kneading flour

One ku-ku, two ku-ku.

Both fell into flour.

Koshkin's rhyme

One, two, three, four, five.
The cat learns to count.
Little by little
Adds a cat to the mouse.
The answer is:
There is a cat, but no mouse.

Myshkin's rhyme

One, two,
Three four.
Let's count the holes in the cheese.
If there are many holes in the cheese,
So the cheese will be tasty.
If there is one hole in it,
So it was delicious yesterday!

Card index of math tongue twisters

Patter –

comic genre of folk art,

a phrase based on a combination of sounds,

that make it difficult to pronounce words quickly

I wandered around the hill alone, collecting tongue twisters.

Two puppies nibble cheek to cheek on a brush in the corner.

Three magpies - three ratchets

Lost three brushes:

Three - today

Three - yesterday

Three - the day before yesterday.

Four little black little imp drew a drawing in black ink extremely cleanly.

In the courtyard, four Sashki were playing checkers on the grass.

Again, five guys found five honey agarics at the hemp.

Six mice rustle in the reeds.

On seven sleighs, seven in the sleigh sat themselves.

Sixteen mice walked
found forty pennies each,
two smaller mice
found two pennies.

The fellow ate 33 pies and pie, but all with cottage cheese.

Thirty-three Yegorkas lived on a hill on a hillock: one Yegorka, two Yegorka, three Yegorka ...

Card file of math problems in verse

How many suns are behind a cloud,
How many refills are in a fountain pen
How many noses does an elephant have
How many watches are on your hand?
How many legs does a fly agaric have
And attempts at the sapper,
He knows and is proud of himself
Column number ...
(unit)

How many ears on the top of the head
How many legs does a half frog have,
How many mustaches does a catfish have?
At the planet of the poles,
How many halves in total,
In a pair - brand new shoes,
And the front paws of the lion
Knows only the number ...
(two)

A puppy is sitting on the porch

Warms his fluffy side. Another one came running

And sat down next to him.

(How many puppies are there?)

How many months are in winter
In the summer, in the autumn, in the spring,
How many eyes does a traffic light have
Base on the baseball field
The edges of the sports epee
And stripes on our flag
Whatever anyone tell us,
The figure knows the truth ...
(three)

A rooster flew up the fence.

I met two more there.

How many roosters are there?

Who has the answer ready?(3)

How many legs does a mongoose have
Petals in a cabbage flower
Fingers on a chicken leg
And on the back paw of a cat,
Tanya's hands together with Petya
And all sides in the world
Yes, and the oceans in the world
The number knows ...
(four)

My birthday

Gave me a horse

Two balls, one turntable.

How many toys do I have?

How many fingers on the hand
And a penny in a patch,
The rays of the starfish
Five rooks have beaks,
Maple leaves
And the corners of the bastion
Tell about all this
The figure will help us ...
(five)

Three yellow-eyed daisies,

Two cheerful cornflowers

The children gave it to mom.

How many flowers are in the bouquet?

Card index of mathematical labyrinths, puzzles,

games for similarities and differences, entertaining examples

Card index of mathematical tales

Mathematics in the Forest

Once the Number One saw a hare in the forest and said to him:
- Of all the forest animals, only you have long ears ... So you are the only one with long ears!
- I'm not alone, - objected the hare, - I have many brothers.

Then a bear came out into the clearing and sang: "The bear in the forest is stronger than all."
- You are one such strong animal in the forest, - the number 1 admired.
- Yes, I am one of my mother's son, and I am the strongest of all, - the bear answered importantly. Tomorrow is my birthday and I am one year old.
- Congratulations! - the number 1 exclaimed, - I hope you will celebrate your birthday alone and eat all the treats yourself?
- One is bad, - the bear cub roared. - With whom I will play hide and seek and sing songs. This is a bad holiday if you are alone.

Why doesn't anyone want to be alone? - The Number One asked herself sadly.

Why do you guys think?

Who is the number 2 like?

Number 2 walked along the path and heard someone crying under the bush.

- I-I-I, lost.
Deuce looked under the bush and saw a large gray chick there.
- Who is your mom? - the number 2 asked the chick.
- My mother is a beautiful and big bird. She looks like you, ”the chick squeaked.

Do not cry, we will find her, - said the number 2.

She put the chick on her tail, and they went to look for mom.

Soon Deuce saw a beautiful flat bird with a long tail over the meadow.

- This is not your chick, a beautiful bird? - asked Deuce.
- I'm not a bird, but a kite. I don't even have wings.
- Pee-pee, this is not a mother, my mother is like you, - said the chick.

Who is the number 3 friends with?

Once upon a time there was a cheerful Traffic Light. He stood at an intersection and blinked three lights: green, yellow and red. But one day all three lights went out.

What started here! The cars could not pass because they were driving all at once. Pedestrians could not cross the street because they were afraid of being hit by cars.

Fortunately, there was a little girl in the crowd of pedestrians. She knew that the traffic light is friendly with the number 3, and rather called her:
- Hello, your friend the traffic light is ill, and he urgently needs help!

Number 3 immediately came running and brought him three delicious triangular cookies. She treated the traffic light to cookies, and it immediately lit up.

It turns out that the traffic light was very hungry, and therefore could no longer work.

Since then, the number 3 has been visiting traffic lights every day. When a traffic light shows cars with its red eye and the traffic stops, number 3 feeds it with three triangular cookies.

Four wishes number 4

“If this is a beast with four eyes, four wings and four tails, then I will make friends with him,” the number 4 thought.

She went into the forest thicket and heard a terrible roar:
- Who came to me?
- It's me - the number 4, - said the number.
- What did you bring? The beast growled again.
“Four sweet cookies,” the number 4 replied.

- Hurry, give them here, - screamed the terrible beast.

The number 4 threw four cookies to the beast, and he swallowed them in an instant.
“I was dying of hunger, and you fed me,” the beast suddenly purred. - For this I will fulfill your four wishes.
I want the world to have more ...

Five senses

Early in the morning the cheerful singing of birds woke the girl up. She opened her eyes and closed her eyes against the sun. The kitchen smelled deliciously of pancakes.
The girl remembered that she had a lollipop under her pillow, and took it out. The lollipop filled my mouth with a sweet raspberry flavor. A soft blanket hugged the girl and she dozed off again.

Suddenly the girl's ears spoke angrily:
- We heard birdsong and woke up the girl, and you, your eyes, closed your eyes from the sun and did not want to wake up.

– I called the girl to breakfast with a delicious smell of pancakes, and you, tongue, decided to eat raspberry candy instead of breakfast,- the tongue chided the nose.

– And you pens, why did you hide under the soft blanket?- asked in unison the nose and ears.

The eyes were offended that they were being scolded, and they got angry:
- If so, we will not watch any more.

– I refuse to taste too- added a tongue.

– And we don't want to feel soft and hard, cold and hot,- said the pens.

The number 5 heard this conversation and got angry:

-What a disgrace! You, the five senses, must always work together.

– Good morning daughter- suddenly heard ears.

Eyes immediately opened and saw my mother. The arms hugged Mom tightly. The nose breathed in the delicate scent of my mother's perfume. The mouth got hungry and said: "How delicious the pancakes smell!"

"It's good that all my five senses are reconciled",- the girl was delighted.

Fairy Math - Girl and Number 6

One girl could not remember how to spell the number 6. Sometimes she wrote an oval at the bottom, and a ponytail at the top, and sometimes vice versa.
- Why did you again write the number 9 instead of the number 6?- Mom was angry.
- Number 9 has a big smart head. Number 6
decided to become as smart and turned over, - the girl laughed.
– So your number 6 is a circus acrobat- Mom was surprised.

At night, the girl dreamed of a circus. Instead of animals, numbers appeared there. They tumbled, performed tricks and juggled.
Suddenly the director of the circus announced: "The acrobats are performing: the girl and the number 6!"
The girl entered the arena, and the number 6 deftly put her on her head.
“Now you have to count all the spectators in the hall,” said the number 6.
- How can I count while standing on my head? The girl asked angrily.
- And how can I count to six if you turn me into the number 9? - the number 6 cried.
- Sorry, I won't turn you over anymore. I'll tie six beautiful bows to your ponytail.

Number 7 and Seven Colors of the Rainbow

After the rain, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky. Two boys saw a rainbow and argued:

- The most beautiful color in the rainbow is red, because I have a new red bike. It would be nice if the whole rainbow was red, ”said one boy.

- No, let the whole rainbow be green. I have a favorite green car, ”said the second boy.

They argued for a long time, and considered each of their colors the best. The rainbow was upset after hearing this dispute. She always thought people liked all seven of her colors. From frustration, the rainbow melted forever, and people have forgotten how to rejoice.

- What to do? I offended the rainbow, ”one boy said sadly.
- Do not be sad. Let's ask the number 7 to return all seven colors of the rainbow, - suggested the second boy.
Number 7, after listening to the boys, went to the artist and told him that the rainbow was gone.
- I'll draw a rainbow if the boys make up.

The artist painted the picture for seven whole days of the week. When the painting was finished, a rainbow appeared in the sky again.

Who helped the Number 8?

- Oh-she-she! - the number 8 cried, - I fell, hurt my side and am late for class. Today children should learn number 8. If I do not come, they will not learn me.

- Let's go to the lesson instead of you. Children can make the number 8 out of two oval clouds, said the two clouds.
- No, you are too big to fit in the classroom, - sad
objected the figure 8.

- Maybe I will fly on a spider web to school instead of you? I look like a little Eight, and I have eight legs, - squeaked the spider.

- No, you are too small, and the wind can carry your cobweb in a completely different direction, - the number 8 answered sadly.
A boy was riding a bicycle along the road. He took the number 8 and took it to school.

Lucky number 9

- The Five has five fingers, the Seven has seven notes, and I have nothing, - the number 9 saddened.
- You can count nine objects at once, - other numbers began to console the number 9.
- But I have nothing to count, - Nine almost cried.

The sun felt sorry for the number 9 and gave her nine rays of sunshine.

The number 9 was delighted and counted its nine rays all day. When evening came, the number 9 hid the rays in amber stones so that they would not melt in the dark.
The next day, the number 9 saw a crying girl on the street. The girl was nine years old, but her mom and dad had a fight, and so she cried. “You can't be left without a birthday present,” the number 9 decided and presented the girl with amber stones with sunbeams.

Zero's appearance

- I am so good at myself, I look like a sun, and a donut, and a ball, - Nolik chanted loudly, walking along the road.
All the numbers immediately surrounded him.
- Oh, you're oval as a pancake! What is your name? - asked number 2.
- My name is Zero and I am a famous person. Wherever you look, you will find me everywhere, in any wheel, - said Nolik proudly.
- What can you count? - asked the number 9.
- Anything, I can count, - Nolik answered importantly and began to count. But no matter how much he counted, it always came out zero.
- Why are you needed, if with your help it is impossible to count even one object, - the numbers laughed.
- Am I really anyone ...

How the number 10 appeared

Number 1 brought Nolik to her home, sat the guest at the table and says:
- Sorry, Nolik, I can't treat you well. In my house, everything is one at a time: one cup of tea and one pie.

- And I myself came to visit empty-handed, - Nolik was upset.
Number 1 put a plate with one pie in front of Nolik, one cup of tea and sat down next to him.
Ten pies and ten cups of tea suddenly appeared on the table.
- Zero is a miracle! Together with you we will form the number 10! - the number 1 shouted joyfully.
She rather ran to other numbers and invited them to her place for tea.
- Thank you for the invitation, but you have only one pie and one cup of tea in your house, and there are many of us, - the numbers refused.
- It used to be like this, but Nolik changed everything and miraculously increased everything tenfold.

In the collection of proverbs of the Russian people, there are a number of expressions that contain mathematical concepts: measures of length and weight, numbers and numbers. You can find more than a dozen proverbs with the words: count, number, count, measure, measure. All these proverbs - about mathematics... We have collected them on one page to help you in your studies 🙂 Sources of information were: N. Uvarov's book "Encyclopedia of Folk Wisdom" and an abstract "Mathematics in Proverbs and Sayings".

Proverbs with the word "mathematics":

Without letters and grammar, you can't learn math.
Arithmetic is the queen of mathematics, mathematics is the queen of all sciences.

Proverbs with old measures

Elbow(the oldest measure of length, the distance from the end of an extended middle finger or a clenched fist to the elbow. As a measure of length in Russia, it has been found since the 11th century)

Himself with a marigold, and a beard - from the elbow.
Lived from the elbow, and lived with the nail.
Nose elbow, but a handful of mind.
The nose is about the elbow, and the mind is the size of a fingernail.
Say it on the nail, and they will retell it from the elbow.

Span(Old Russian measure of length, equal to the distance between the ends of the stretched fingers of the hand - thumb and forefinger)

Seven spans in the forehead. (about a very smart person)

You will not yield an inch.
You lose an inch, you lose a fathom.

A span by a span, but not a sazhen.

Step(one of the oldest measures of length, the average length of a human stride = 71 cm)

He took a step and conquered the kingdom.
No step back!
Go by leaps and bounds.

Arshin ( old Russian unit of length measurement)

Measure at your own yardstick.
Each merchant measures it at his own yardstick.
Sits, walks, as if an arshin has swallowed.
An arshin beard, but an inch of mind.
Don't measure it by your yardstick.
Arshin for a caftan, and two for patches.
He sees three arshins in the ground.
You are an inch from business, but it is an arshin from you.

Verst ( Russian distance unit)

Kolomenskaya verst. (joking name for a very tall man)
Moscow is a mile away, but near to the heart.
Love is not measured by miles.
From word to deed - a whole mile.
A mile is closer, a penny is cheaper.
Seven miles is not a hook for a young man.
You lag a mile behind - you catch up by ten.
Lies seven miles to heaven, and everything is in the forest.
They were looking for a mosquito seven miles away, and a mosquito was on the nose.
A hunter walks about seven miles to gulp jelly.
Stretch a mile, but don't be simple.
From thought to thought, five thousand miles.
Write about other people's sins in yardsticks, and about your own - in lowercase letters.
You can see him a mile away.

Vershok(Old Russian unit of length measurement, originally equal to the length of the main phalanx of the index finger. The word vershok comes from top in the sense of "the upper extremity of something, apex, apex")

One inch ahead - and everything is already dark.
If you plow an inch deeper, you will endure five days of drought.
A beard with inches, and words with a bag.
Two tops (or half a top) from the pot, and already a pointer.
Her Saturday through Friday climbed two inches.
Three inches from the pot.

Mile(a path measure for measuring distance, introduced in ancient Rome, was used before the introduction of the metric system of measures)

Seven-league steps.

Fathom(one of the most common measures of length in Russia)

Slanting fathom in the shoulders.
Log to log - fathom.
You are from the truth by a span, and it is from you by a fathom.
You will yield a span, and will pull you a fathom.
You are from the case for a span, and it is from you for a sazhen.
Span by spade, but not a sazhen
We lived a fathom, and lived out a span.

Tithe(measure of land area - tenth).

Crane measured tithes, says: true.

Spool(An ancient Russian measure of weight (mass), about 4.3 g. It is assumed that the word comes from "zlatnik" - the name of the coin. Since the end of the 16th century, the spool has served as a unit of weight for precious metals and stones)

Pood(an old Russian measure of weight equal to 40 pounds or 16 kilograms).

The pood protects the grain.
You recognize a person when you eat a pound of salt with him.
Hay - for poods, and gold - for spools (that is, each thing has its own definite value).
For this, you can put a pood candle.
The grain protects the pood.
Your own spool of someone else's pood is more expensive.
The thin one falls in pounds, and the good one drops by spools.
You will recognize a person as long as you eat a pound of salt with him.
You will get the pood grief off your shoulders, and you will choke on the zolotnikov one (that is, you should not neglect even an insignificant danger).

Lb(the old Russian measure of weight is 409.5 g or 96 spools)

Dozen(the old measure of the collective count of similar objects, equal to twelve)

Dozen goods (simple goods, regular goods, unoriginal goods)
They put your brother thirteen for a dozen, and even then they don't. (offensive characteristic of a lazy, incapacitated employee)

Ancient volume measures (cup, bucket, glass, ladle, bottle, etc.)

Proverbs on the topic "Mathematics"

With the word "Account":

The account will tell the whole truth.
Friendship does not spoil the score.
Account with a guy, and a meter with a stretch.
The score is more frequent, the friendship is stronger.
Without an account and no money.
Money is like the account.
For counting and we have a head on our shoulders.
Know the price for the minutes, the count for the seconds.
Money is an account, and bread is a measure.
If you know the score, you can count it yourself.
The word is faith, bread is a measure, money is an account.
God loves faith (or: truth), and money is the count.
The word is faith, bread is a measure, money is an account.
In the end, not counting a thousand.
Money is strong. The counting hundred is full.
Money is not splinters, it is strong by account.
Once does not count.
In three counts.

Count money in your pocket, not someone else's.
Count the money in your pocket.
Count, woman, chickens in the fall, and man, measure bread in the spring.
I would count my teeth in my mouth.
Counting money in someone else's pocket is not good, but interesting.
To count - after not to bother.

Proverbs about measure:

Without measure and bast shoe you can’t weave.
The account will not lie, and the measure will not deceive.
When rye, then measure.
Measure is faith in every work.
Grandmother measured with a hook, but waved her hand: to be in the old way, as set.
They were measuring devil and Taras, their rope broke.
Buckets will not measure the wind.
Without weight, without measure, there is no faith.
There is no faith without measure.
Everything needs a measure.
The measure will not lie.
Measure at your own yardstick.

With the word "Numbers":

The numbers are taken from the ceiling.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Numbers are remembered well not by smart ones, but by greedy ones.

Proverbs with numbers:

There are a lot of Russian folk proverbs containing the names of numbers and numbers! The most famous and well-known of them we have already published in one of the previous articles:

With the words "How much and how much":

How much white day, so much black night.
How many rope does not twist, but there is an end.
How many heads, so many minds, and answer to one head.
How much you borrowed, you will give so much.
How many years, how many winters, but got together - and there is nothing to talk about.
No matter how much I live, I will not be young twice.
No matter how much you live, you can't worry about everything.
How much you work, you earn so much.
How many? A carriage and a small cart.
As much truth as in the sieve of water.
I have lived so much, but I haven’t made my mind.

More less:

Fewer words are sweet, many words are bitter.

Proverbs and sayings on the topic "Account"

In the collection of V. Dahl "Proverbs of the Russian people", from where we got the proverbs on the theme "Account", the author also collected jokes, idle talk, sayings, phrases, omens, sentences. Dahl notes that jokes also often turn into proverbs, sometimes acquire proverbial meaning if they are applied to some famous case. Therefore, below are given not only proverbs, which can be characterized as "mathematical", but also jokes, fables, sentences, etc., which have firmly entered the speech and acquired proverbial meaning.

Alone, like a god, like a finger, like gunpowder in an eye, like a verst in a field, like a poppy color.
One doesn't count. More than once.
One truth (that is, not two) lives in the world.
God has only one truth.
A couple - a ram and a little girl.
The third (player, listener, debater) under the table.
Two are fighting, the third is not in the way!
Two dogs are fighting (squabbling), the third one, don't poke your nose!
Thirteen is an unlucky number (from Judas the traitor).
Third, nine, fortieth and anniversaries.
The Russian account will be just so much.
Odd or even? God loves fuzzy. Fuzzy happy.
One, the other - too much. One, two, three - too many.
The chicken is sprinkled with an odd number of eggs.
The whip and the cannon (when saluting) loves odd.
Odd happy. To read, so it is odd to hold on.
Odin has no boyfriend. One is more expensive than a sorok of sables.
The deuce is happy. Self-friend - love and advice.
God loves trinity. Holy account that trinity. Three fingers put the cross.
A house is not built without a trinity, a hut does not become without four corners.
The hut cannot be cut without four corners. House of four corners.
Four cardinal points on four seas are laid.
Four corners of a house to build, four seasons to commit.
There are five fingers in the hand. There is a mass on five prowers.
Orthodox Church on five chapters.
There is no mass at five minutes before, and the sixth is in stock.
There are six buttons on board. Shestoper - ataman mace.
Gear - brigadier riding.
There are seven days in a week. There were seven wise men in the world.
Seven planids in the sky. Seven don't wait for one.
Eighth day, which is the first.
The ninth month is born. The ninth wave is fatal.
On the hands, on the feet, ten fingers each. Without tens and no count.
Eleven for odd sake.
There are twelve months in a year. The twelve apostles and tribes of Israel.
Thirteenth under the table. The bad ones are thirteen for a dozen (and even then they do not take).
God is one; two tavlya Moiseevs; three patriarchs on earth; four leaves of the gospel; the Lord endured five wounds; six cherubic wings; seven ranks of angels; eight solar circles; nine joys a year; ten commandments of God; one and ten forefathers; two n
Two thousand brooms, five hundred goliks, three hundred dollars each - is there a lot of rubles?
Five money and a penny, five kopecks and an old money - how much has it become?
Do half-biting mice have many legs and ears?
A peasant bought three goats, paid twelve rubles for them, why did each goat come? (On the ground).
Buy a hundred cattle for one hundred rubles, pay - and ten rubles for one, and five rubles, and fifty kopecks; how many cattle are there for each price? (Fifty kopecks for ninety cattle, five rubles for nine cattle, ten rubles for one cattle
A flock of birds flew into the grove; if there are two per tree, one tree remains; sat down one by one - one was missing. Are there many birds and trees? (Three trees and four birds.)
A hundred geese flew, one goose met them: "Hello, he says, a hundred geese!" - "No, we are not a hundred geese: if there were still so many, but half that, and a quarter as many, but you, goose, there would have been a hundred geese." How many were flying? (Thirty-six geese.)
There was a husband and wife, a brother with a sister, and a brother-in-law with a son-in-law, how many of them were there? (Three.)
A son with a father and a grandfather with a grandson walked in a column; how many are there? (Three.)
Seven brothers have one sister, how many are all? (One.)
Two mothers with their daughters and a grandmother and a granddaughter walked, found one and a half pies, how much will they get? (Half each.)
Walked alone, found five rubles; three will go, will they find many?
Noah has three sons: Shem, Ham and Afet - who was their father? (Vasily blacksmith.)
Three cats are sitting, against each cat are two cats, is there a lot of them all? (Three.)
A pood of flour for three rubles; how much will a five-piece bun cost?
Set aside a penny and three money.
Seven minutes to four and three flew away.
One hundred empty, five hundred nothing.
Poltina without altyn, without forty-seven kopecks.
Sorochies are not magpies, but like forty without one, so go home.