Category: Prep

Draw a cookie and place dots inside for chocolate chips. Now show this in a different way e.g. a tens{...}

Give the kids, randomly, a number written on a Post-It, like 23 or 14 or 27, now get them to{...}

Launch: Use the big ten floor frames. Have one ten and a single digit number. What number have we created?{...}

I can see 16 flies. Draw what this could look like so that it is easy to count. Can you{...}

  Launch: Use icy pole sticks – make different numbers. Place a rubber band around ten. If I had a{...}

Launch: http://www.ictgames.com/abacusInteger.html Introduce an Abacus in the classroom show how to represent numbers in the teens on the abacus  {...}

https://nrich.maths.org/229/index Match the butterflies to the petals. Understanding two butterflies go to one petal. What flower does not have any{...}

Read ten is a crab.   Focus on just up to ten and how the numbers are made up e.g.{...}