Student resource
Counting in ancient Egypt challenge
Student resource
Ages 7–11 (KS2)
For children to use with an adult's help.
Can you solve the ancient Egyptian counting challenge in this interactive PowerPoint game?
In ancient Egypt, counting and mathematics were important in many parts of daily life. People used maths to figure out how much food they needed, to measure the land they farmed and to build their fantastic pyramids.
The ancient Egyptians developed a clever numerical system. They used hieroglyphs to represent the numbers: 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, and even 1,000,000 (one million). By combining them, they could write down any number they needed. Counting and maths helped the ancient Egyptians in their daily lives, just like it helps us today.
Download our interactive game to see these ancient Egyptian number hieroglyphs and to solve our ancient Egyptian counting challenge.
Instructions to open the game
Instructions to open the game
- Ask an adult to help you.
- Download the Counting in ancient Egypt PowerPoint game.
- Open the game on your laptop or computer using PowerPoint or on your internet browser.
- Select the Slide Show tab on the ribbon in PowerPoint.
- Then select From Beginning, so you can play the game in full screen.
