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10-FRIENDS
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children which pairs of numbers are 10 friends.
– Teach children which pairs of numbers are not 10 friends and why they are not.

HOW MUCH LARGER?
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– To teach children that two numbers are different because their values are different, not because they have different ”names”.
– To teach children to find the distance between two small numbers – ”how much bigger is one number than the other?”
– Get the first understanding of the notion of subtraction (“minus”).

PATTERNS
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children to recognize patterns in a sequence of colored bricks.

COUNT TO 20
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children to count to 20.
– Teach children that the numbers 11 to 19 consist of a 10 and some 1s.
– Teach children that 20 is the next ”10’er” after 10 – namely ”two 10s”.

NUMBER BINGO
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children to decode the name of a number – e.g. when hearing “five”, match this with the symbol “5”.

SMALL ADDITIONS
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children to add small numbers that give less than 10.
– Teach children to add small numbers that give 10 or more.
NOTE: the exercise “Count to 20” could be done prior to this exercise.

THE MINIMARKET
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children a way to determine the difference between two small numbers by counting from the lowest to the highest.

RUNNING AFTER NUMBERS
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Mix physical movement into various games an exercises involving numbers, in order to activate children during learning sessions.

THE GIRAFFE GEORGE
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Develop addition strategies to add numbers – which ones add more “easily”, e.g. 10-friends.
– Learn to “split” 10s and 100s when subtracting a small number.

THE SUPERMARKET
Material: Teacher and Pupil

Purpose of the exercise:
– Teach children a way to determine the difference between two numbers by counting from the lowest to the highest.
– Teach the children that the  difference (“the money back”) can be “build” in many different ways through addition of a limited set of numbers (“coins and notes available”).