Reasoning about number, sorting and counting

To build on the work done in Early Years children need to sort groups in various ways before counting the objects within the groups.

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Counting a variety of things.

How many boats, trains, bikes and buses can you see in the picture?

Looking for similarities in groups of sorted objects.

How many flowers, balls etc can you see in the picture?

Sorting and counting activities.

Explaining answers: counting forwards and backwards.

Explaining the criteria for sorting into groups - there may be more than one possible answer.

Sorting a variety of fruit into groups.

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