Cookie Subitising

Give kids counters in a circle. Say a number, kids make that number. How many different ways did we find?

Cooking time!

Using:

– Marie biscuits

– Royal Icing (icing sugar and water)

– Smarties

In groups ice the biscuits. Pull out a number from a deck of cards and now decorate the biscuit with that number of smarties to match. Can you come up with another way to represent this number? See how many different ways you can think of.

Enabling: Complete dots from 1 to 5.

Extending: Can you think of another combination of dots to match each object?

Extending: Over ten