Remember: Each finger owns a column. Reach up to its number, tap, and come home. Look at the screen, not at your hands.
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The cake stallAt the school fair, Kofi and Auntie Ngozi ran the cake stall, and it needed a price sign. Kofi hunted for each number with one finger, his eyes down on the keys, and one price took ages. Taffy the dog yawned, and Kofi sighed. Then Auntie Ngozi showed him the number row, which sits right above the letters, like the top floor of a house. Every finger owns a whole column of keys, from low to high. The left pinky takes one, the left ring takes two and the left middle takes three. The left pointer takes four and five, and the right pointer takes six and seven. The right middle takes eight, the right ring takes nine and the right pinky takes zero. Kofi started with every finger at home, reached up two floors, tapped the number and came straight back.
1
Where is the number row?
below the lettersabove the letterson the right side
2
After a finger taps a number, it stays up on the number row.
TrueFalse
3
The right pinky takes the number .
On the number row
Start with every finger at home, reach up, tap, and come straight back.
4
The blue key is on the number row. Which finger types it?
right middle fingerright ring fingerleft middle finger
5
The blank key is typed by the left middle finger. Write its number:
6
Join each finger to its number.
1left pinky
2left ring
3right middle
4right ring
5right pinky
A2
B0
C9
D1
E8
7
Circle every number the left hand types.
16485
8
The blue keys are 4 and 5. How many fingers type them?
twothreeone, the left pointer
9
Count the floors going up. Number them from the bottom.
Home row
Bottom letters
Top letters
The number row
10
Kofi typed the 9 with his left ring finger. Which fix is right?
use the right ring finger for the 9use the right pinky for the 9use the left middle finger for the 9
11
The left pinky and the right pinky type the same number.
TrueFalse
12
Stretch: to type 365 days, the 6 is typed by the right finger.
Copy and write
13
Copy it. 12 eggs 9 lives 10 toes
14
Write two prices for a pretend cake stall, in digits.
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Answer key · Set A
Every finger owns a column
1above the letters The number row sits right above the letters, like the top floor of a house.
2False Every finger comes straight back home after a tap.
30 The right pinky stretches up to the zero.
4right middle finger The right middle finger takes the eight.
53 The left pinky takes one, the left ring takes two, and the left middle takes three.
61-D, 2-A, 3-E, 4-C, 5-B The left pinky takes one and the left ring two. On the right, the middle takes eight, the ring nine and the pinky zero.
71, 4, 5 The left hand types 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The right hand types 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0.
8one, the left pointer The left pointer takes four and five, so one finger owns both keys.
92, 1, 3, 4 Count the floors going up: bottom letters, home row, top letters, then numbers.
10use the right ring finger for the 9 The right ring finger takes the nine.
11False The left pinky takes the one and the right pinky takes the zero.
12pointer The right pointer takes six and seven.
14Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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