Remember: The pad is a calculator on the keyboard. Rest the pointer, middle and ring fingers on 4, 5 and 6, feel the bump on the 5, reach, tap and come home.
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Grandpa Sami's shopGrandpa Sami kept the corner shop, and every Friday he added up the week. His granddaughter Leila helped, and Pickle the hamster rode along in his pocket. Grandpa typed every number on the row above the letters with one finger, so at this pace the week would take all night. Then Leila spotted a block of keys at the right of the keyboard. It was the number pad, like a calculator grown right into the keyboard. On the pad, seven, eight and nine sit along the top, and the numbers climb up from the bottom. The home row of the pad is four, five and six, with the pointer on the four, the middle finger on the five and the ring finger on the six. The five has a little bump, like f and j, and the thumb rests on the zero. When Pickle hopped onto the pad, he typed zero, zero, zero!
1
Where does the number pad sit on a keyboard?
above the lettersat the right of the keyboardat the left of the keyboard
2
On the pad, the numbers climb up from the bottom.
TrueFalse
3
The home row of the pad is four, five and .
The pad
The pad is a calculator on the keyboard. Rest on four, five and six.
4
The key with the little bump is blank. Write its number:
5
Look at the pad. Which row is its home row?
7 8 91 2 34 5 6
6
Join each finger to the pad key where it rests.
1pointer
2middle finger
3ring finger
4thumb
A5
B0
C4
D6
7
The bump on the five is like the bumps on which keys?
a and sf and jq and p
8
Join each pad key to its job.
1plus
2minus
3star
4slash
Ameans times
Btakes one number away
Cadds numbers together
Dmeans divided by
Order, fix and stretch
Rest on 4, 5 and 6, reach, tap, and come back.
9
Number the story in order.
Leila spots a block of keys
Backspace tidies the extra zeros
Grandpa Sami says it is the number pad
Pickle hops on and types zero, zero, zero
Grandpa taps the week's numbers with one hand
10
Leila says a phone puts 1 2 3 along the top, so the pad must too. What is true?
The pad has 7 8 9 along the top, the opposite of a phoneThe pad has 1 2 3 along the topThe pad has no numbers along the top
11
A small laptop with no pad has no way to type numbers.
TrueFalse
12
Stretch: to type 12.50 for dollars and cents, Grandpa taps the key between the 2 and the 5.
Copy and write
13
Copy it. 456 654 465
14
Write which fingers rest on 4, 5 and 6, and where the thumb rests.
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Answer key · Set A
The calculator on the keyboard
1at the right of the keyboard The pad sits at the right of the keyboard, so the right hand can work it alone.
2True The pad has seven, eight and nine along the top, so the numbers climb up from the bottom.
36 Pointer on the four, middle finger on the five and ring finger on the six.
45 The bump is on the five, in the middle of the home row, to help a finger find home.
54 5 6 The home row of the pad is the middle row: four, five and six.
61-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B Pointer on four, middle finger on five, ring finger on six, and the thumb rests on the zero.
7f and j The bump on the five is like the bumps on f and j: it helps a finger find home by feel.
81-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-D Along the right edge are the plus, the minus, the star (times) and the slash (divided by).
91, 5, 2, 4, 3 Leila spots the pad, Grandpa names it, he adds up the week, Pickle types extra zeros, and backspace tidies up.
10The pad has 7 8 9 along the top, the opposite of a phone A phone puts one, two, three along the top. The pad does the opposite, with seven, eight, nine along the top.
11False The number row does the same job on any keyboard, a little slower.
12point The point key makes a decimal point, like twelve point five zero.
14Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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