Display dots · direct an exchange sceneYear 1 Maths · T1 W9–10 · Choices / Day 45 route 3

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Direct a pretend display with 25 represented dots. Begin with two checked ten-strips and five singles; you can direct the whole scene without moving a piece yourself.

  1. Ask the helper to verify each full strip's ten cells/marks and point to the five singles.
  2. Say or show which one ten-strip you want opened. Have its ten members represented as ten singles, then send that old strip out of the active account.
  3. Pause the scene and describe the parts now. Point to any old strip that would count the same ten members twice if left in use.
  4. Give the ending: how can you check this new account still represents the same 25? An explanation of an unperformed exchange remains a proposed scene.

Point, speak, sign, use AAC or tell a helper where to put the marks. A quiet private try or pause is fine. No photo, returned homework, purchase or independent drawing/moving is needed.

Grown-up help

Retained ordinary model. 20 + 5 = 25; replacing one ten and removing its old strip gives 10 + 15 = 25. Give a model only when useful after the child's first thinking; it is not an independently found response.

Director route. Follow the child's words/signs/AAC choices faithfully; neutral reading and physical operation are different from a maths hint. Use a smaller honest actual amount or pause privately if needed. Below-ten practice cannot establish a full-ten exchange. A narrated proposed move is not an observed physical move.

Full daily plan gives today's exact reasoning and next instruction. This is an ordinary practice model, not a reserved fresh answer. If the total is too large, choose and label a smaller actual collection while keeping the partition purpose. Adult movement follows the child's decisions. Supplied counts are support, not evidence of independently finding that count. If both versions remain, mark the ten represented objects and remove their old strip as the singles replace it. If the whole changes, count a new smaller account before/after one exchange.

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