To think I've been doing '5' wrong...

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my whole life?!

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You defo have, I was taught that way, although not with a pretty little rhyme!

Yep that's how I have always written a number '5' so if you do it differently it's not wrong just different. As long as it looks like a 5 it doesn't matter how you write it.

This is what my 6 year old does - I wasn’t taught this way either!!

I was taught "down, around, put its hat on" at primary school

That's how I was taught to write a 5, back in the day.

I was taught to put a hat on in the 80s . I was lazy and didn't want to pick my pen up again so just started it at the end as I do now.

That's how I learned in the early eighties. Different rhyme, (something to do with getting out of bed, eating breakfast then putting his hat on), but the same steps.

I was taught that way in the late 70s. I can still hear the teacher, "down, a fat body and a hat on top"

I don't remember any rhymes (60's child) but that is how i write a 5.

Why would I draw a 5 with two strokes when it can be done in one continuous line?

I was taught that way, but don't write it that way now.

I do mine in one swift movement, left along the top then down and around.

That’s how I do it Stinky! I was taught in the 80s and find it very odd putting a hat on the 5

I'm trying to write a 5 and have forgotten how I do it now

Same stinkytoe I'm not messing about with two lines when i can start at the top right and go left, down and around.

Start at the top, similar to writing an S.
DH says he writes his in the same way.

I'm with @Stinkytoe and @gamerwidow! My kids write theirs the same way as me too, never seen anyone write a 5 like in the link

It can start to look like an ‘s’ if you write quickly in one go. Not useful if you’re doing lots of algebra.

I don’t recall any rhymes, and i don’t Think my dc were taught rhymes either.

To test how I do it, I just wrote out 75 and 25, and found myself doing the one stroke method, writing the five from top to bottom.

Short neck, belly fat. Mr 5 wears a hat. Such a lovely rhyme in my school!

if you were right handed, and using an unworn fountain pen, or a dip pen, or a quill, then the point of the nib would dig into the paper if you tried to do the top stroke right to left.

But nobody does, so it doesn't matter any more

My mum was a primary teacher (retired now). She taught my son to do a 5 with ‘a head, a big fat belly, feet and a...hat!’.

One line method here! But my 4s are a continuous line too - my 4s and 9s look like those on a keyboard

I do it as in the rhyme. I remember being pulled up in the 80s for doing it like an S.

I've never seen that before. Why would you use two strokes instead of one??