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Teaching Roman Numerals

Roman Numerals Lessons

Roman Numerals are used all over the world. This website will show you how to read & write them PLUS provide lots of interesting examples of their uses. The site also contains many activities designed to help you practice Roman numbers & and some really awful ‘dad jokes’.

Roman Numerals

Explore the world of Roman Numerals here.

Learn all about the number system of Ancient Rome. Learn how Roman numerals began & how easy it is to write them. Explore all the places we still use Roman numerals, you’d be surprised how much we still use these numbers (not numers) when you start to look.

From the Graphic

Narrator – The Roman Number System has been dead for over 1000 years but we still use it today. Find out where.
Senator – There are only 11 types of people in this world
Soldier – Those who understand Roman Numerals and those who don’t 🙂 

Sheep & Sticks
ii.
How to Write
Roman Numerals

The Basic Symbols
iii.
How to Read
Roman Numerals

The Additive Principle
iv.
How to Read

Roman Numerals 
The Subtractive Principle
– easier than it sounds 🙂
v.
Why We Still Study
Roman Numerals
– The Beginnings of Rome
vi.
Roman
Numerals Game

– Not a Soldiers’ Favorite
vii.
Clock Faces &
Roman Numerals

– a French King Did It
viii.
Roman Numerals
in Names

– ‘Important People’
ix.
Video Games &
Roman Numerals

– The sequels
– How old is Your Show?
xi.
Roman Numerals
Super Heroes 
& Copyright Dates
xii.
Roman Numerals 
& the Superbowl
xiii.
Roman Numerals & the
Modern Olympics 

Why?
Why?
xv.
The Great
Fire of Rome

in Roman Numerals
xvi.
Roman Numerals
& Movie Sequels
xvii.
Roman Numerals
are a Joke 🙂
xviii.
How do you write Zero
in Roman Numerals?
xix.
How to Add
Roman Numerals
– Read On if You Dare
xxi.
The Romans had
a lot to do with
the modern Calendar
xxii.
Roman Numerals 
& Ancient Egypt
xxiii.
How to Write Large
Numbers using
Roman Numerals?
xxiv.
Battle Losses
in Roman Numerals
xxv.
Hannibal’s
Elephants
xxvi.
The Destruction
of Pompeii
xxvii.
The Colosseum
xxviii.
World’s
Tallest Buildings
xxix.
Highest
Mountains
xxx.
The Golden
Milestone
xxxi.
Roman Numerals
Converter
 

Roman Numerals Charts

Roman Numerals Chart
The Basic Symbols –
I, V, X, L, C, L & M
Roman Numerals Chart
How to Count from 1 to 10-
I – X
Roman Numerals Chart
How to Count from 11 to 20-
XI – XX

Roman Numerals Games

Roman Numerals
BINGO
 
 Roman Numeral Game
4 in a Row

Roman Numerals Jigsaw Puzzles
VI Electronic Puzzles

Roman Numerals Card Game
Concentration (Electronic)
Still Working on Everything Below

Roman
Numerals
Worksheet

/ Study
Guide

First
100 Roman Numerals

A Printable
Classroom Chart
Under Construction
Roman Numerals
Bookmark
– a printable

bookmark with a Roman numerals Mnemonic on it. Under Construction
Roman Numerals Translator
Roman Numerals
Crossword
– A Printable

Collaborative Task
Under Construction
Roman
Numerals Dice Game

a collection of printable dice and game instructions. Under Construction

Roman Numerals
Hundred Chart Puzzle

a Printable 
collaborative task
Under Construction