Mathematics

 

 

Continuation with addition and subtraction. The addition is easier for the children, so I have a couple of new addition activities, which will be set out as centre activities.  Subtraction is more difficult so once again this will mainly be completed during large group activities as a finger play activity, where one or two of the children will leave the group and the rest of the children will tell how many are left. I mainly want the children to see with addition the answer becomes bigger and with subtraction the answer becomes smaller.

 

In order to assist the children to understand the concept of some numbers are bigger than others. I have purchased a couple of decks of playing cards. I removed all the Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks. The cards are placed faced down and one child chooses a card and places it in front  of them and the partner chooses a card and does the same. The player with the higher number takes both cards. At the end of the game the player with the most cards wins the game. Next time the winner will be the player with the smallest number. This will assist to increase the children's understanding numbers that are bigger and smaller.