Paper-picture kit · interview the pretend makerYear 1 Maths · T1 W9–10 · Choices / Day 49 route 3

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Plan two jobs for 30 picture marks. Choose a pretend maker's wish: ‘I want a big start picture’ or ‘I want plenty saved for my ending.’ These are invented requests, not everybody's needs.

  1. Tell a helper which request you choose and name the two useful parts.
  2. Direct how the waiting marks join those parts, with each member counted once. Explain your choice for that particular request.
  3. Ask, ‘What if the maker chose the other request?’ Propose or enact a changed split of these same 30 marks.
  4. Compare the two accounts. Both must fit the whole; keep the one that suits your chosen job and say why. A planned picture is not a finished craft.

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. 10 + 20 = 30. 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 a plan is copied, offer a blank organiser and a new modest collection. If the reason ignores the job, name one need and compare two valid splits. If a part is uncertain, return to countable members.

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