How do you write your 7 ?

The teachers I had in elementary school were obsessive compulsive about 1 being a vertical only and 7 never being crossed but if the 7 is crossed there's no question that it's a 7.

This post was edited by Livvie at May 26, 2017 8:19 PM MDT

Yes the crossed 7 is clearly a 7. My teachers were not that picky. The only time I was told not to write something that way was in 3rd grade, I wrote my "a" like that instead of the circle with the line. And then wasn't told it was wrong, the just asked me "why I would write it that way?"....I got the message though.

I guess it depends on the school district.  For elementary school I went to a Christian school and my hubby went to a Christian school of the same denomination and in both of our cases flagged ones and crossed sevens were considered wrong.  Hmm, maybe that's why whistle6 called it great wickedness in the post below lol.

I went to a public high school and they didn't care as long as they could tell what it was supposed to be.

I don't know.... can't see what would be evil about it. I went to public school. 

I guess I'm not going upstairs then.

There is time to repent.

That's smart.  I've heard that 7s sometimes attack people if they get crossed.

They're really nice numbers once you get to know them!

Interesting.  I had to look it up.  From Wikipedia: The "Crossed Seven" is commonly used throughout Europe and Canada, but is sporadically used in the United States.  From my own observations about half the people I know cross the 7 and half don't.

The earlier contributors together suggest some of that such variation might stem from individual schools.

It reminds me of a particular maths topic, vectors I think, in which the letters used as symbols are often indicated as such by an accompanying line above or below - I forget which - because the printed book method uses bold type instead, not practicable in hand-written work.  

That was true in my case because the teachers I had in elementary school all got their underwear in a bunch over flagged ones and crossed sevens but from Kindergarten to 8th grade I went to a private Christian school.

I wonder how or why they got the idea that crossed sevens and flagged ones were so bad.

Then again, they also got their underwear in a bunch over blue nail polish or lipstick.

Well, teachers like that become so set in their ways that anything can be good or bad. Perhaps it was a nationalist thing. A problem with over-flagging the 1 is that it might be confused with a 7 - hence perhaps crossing the 7!. When hand-writing, I use a short serif on the one if it might become all confused and think it was born a letter I.

(When I started to learn how to use computers, I encountered examples of  a very strange looking command phrase, "For I = 1 to ... ".)