Companion Notes
For the Rainman stage show
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The List Demonstration
The number 1 is represented by a building. Picture a tall straight skyscraper. It
looks like the number one.
The number 2 is represented by a pair of jeans. A “pair” of jeans has 2 legs.
The number 3 is represented by a stool because it has 3 legs.
The number 4 is represented by a door because it rhymes (four-door).
The number 5 is represented by a glove because it has 5 fingers.
The number 6 is represented by a box because it has 6 sides.
The number 7 is represented by money. Think of seven being lucky and for being
lucky you receive money.
The number 8 is represented by a gate because it rhymes (eight-gate).
The number 9 is represented by a cat because it has 9 lives.
The number 10 is represented by a picture of toes. Because there are ten toes.
The number 11 is represented by a football goal post. It looks like the number
eleven without the cross bar.
The number 12 is represented by a sandwich. The reason for this is because 12:00
is usually associated with lunch time so a sandwich is used.
The number 13 is represented by a cast on a broken arm. The reason for this is
because the number thirteen is usually considered unlucky. A broken arm will fit
this.
The number 14 is represented by a diploma. A person usually graduates from
grade school at age fourteen.
The number 15 is represented by a tennis racket or net. The reason for this is
because in tennis you can have a score of 15 - love.
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The number 16 is represented by a car. At the age of 16 is when a person can
obtain a drivers license.
The number 17 is represented by a magazine. There is a magazine that is titled
seventeen.
The number 18 is represented by a soldier because at the age of eighteen is when
a person becomes eligible to enlist in the armed forces.
The number 19 is represented by a cowboy and a lasso. This is a picture in which
the number 1 is a cowboy and the 9 looks like a lasso that he is twirling.
The number 20 is represented by a pack of cigarettes. The reason for this is
because they come twenty to a pack.
The number 21 is represented by a wedding. The average age of a person getting
married is approximately twenty one.
The number 22 is represented by a pair of nuns. This is a picture type association.
The number 2 is pictured as a nun on her knees praying. Since there are two 2's in
the number then it is a pair of nuns.
The number 23 is represented by a nun and a frog. This is also a picture
association. We already learned that the 2 can be a nun and now the 3 is a frog.
Picture the top half of the 3 is the frogs body and the second half can be the frogs
legs.
The number 24 is represented by a Christmas tree. The 24th of December being
Christmas eve.
The number 25 is represented by the sky. I visualize the number 2 in the sky and a
bolt of lightning flashes in the shape of a 5.
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The Phonetic Alphabet
"4
Calendar Demonstration
"5
* If the date is in January or February during a leap year then
subtract 1 from your final number
* the 65th birthday is minus 3 from your final answer
* The 100th birthday is minus 1 from the final answer
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Playing Cards
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Binary Numbers
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Magic Square
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Pi
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