Learning to write Eastern Arabic numerals

November 22, 2011 1:46 AM

Remember those handwriting practice worksheets with little arrows showing you how to write letters (image here)? I'm looking for something like that - but for Eastern Arabic numerals.

For lack of a better term, I need to know "stroke order". For a number like ٢, for example, do you start at the bottom, then go up and left, do the little swoosh, and then stop? Or do you start top right, do the little swoosh, then go down and right?

Currently, I can draw them as if they were little doodles, but they're really ropey and I'd love to be more consistent.

Shukran khazeelan!

posted by mdonley to Writing & Language (1 answer total)

This doesn't show the stroke order but are work sheets for writing out the numbers
http://worksheetsforkids.net/tag/arabic-number/

It seems that you could also search for "Arabic Indic Numbers" or “Hindi numerals”, there seem to be a lot of homeschooling resources out there. I googled using those words above and worksheets for children. There is a English program called Hand Writing Without Tears that is used to teach written English to children in school, and there seems to be a copy cat one called Arabic Without Tears but they don't seem to cover numbers in it. Hope that helps.
posted by momochan at 4:55 AM on November 22, 2011