Section 1.2 American Sign Language – Small Number Counts to 100
Written by: Veselin Jungic and Mark MacLean Illustrated by: Simon Roy The American Sign Language translation and narration by Dominique Ireland of the Oneida Nation of the ThamesSmall Number is a 5-year-old boy who gets into a lot of mischief. He lives with his Grandma and Grandpa, who patiently put up with his antics, in a small settlement with 7 tipis arranged in a circle.





Grandma doesn’t want Small Number spending time in their tipi until he smells better, so she decides to set him a task she thinks will take him a long time. She knows Small Number can count to 100.

His task is to count the tipis going round and round until he can tell her which tipi he gets to when he reaches 100.




Question: How did Small Number know that the 100th tipi is the one just south of his grandparents’ tipi without actually counting them?
