Two instruction labels, one reusable collection
Two optional 10–15 minute sessions, unpiloted; one session or a smaller separate job is fine.
Outcome
A reusable paper/material kit and a whole-source instruction label naming the useful quantity, any leftover and a check.
Plain paper, a pencil or child-directed marks, safe large pieces and named places. A place can be a drawn box or spoken label. No food, real money, purchase, printer, account or device required. A helper moves only the piece/place the child chooses.
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Twelve whole story cards are available. Each complete pack needs four. How many complete packs can be made? Separately reset the same twelve and share equally between four makers: how many cards per maker?
- Session 1: introduce the entire fictional job and agree what would make the outcome useful. Identify the given whole/recipients/pack size or equal-kit structure.
- The child builds or directs their own model. Name each chosen member/place and retain a first drawing, dictated note or list without an adult solution preset.
- After that attempt, inspect the exact task condition and introduce the separate worked possibility if wanted. Count/recombine all original members; do not add missing pieces or cut whole cards.
- Session 2: make an instruction card containing the full source identity and meaning of the result. A willing helper may try it, or the child can explain it privately. Record what actually happened; an invitation is not an observation.
- Compare the first and revised guide as two separate records. Describe the change and the support rather than giving a completion badge.
My job
What is known
What I need to find
My model
Answer and meaning
My check
Adult teaching · open after the first try
Name 12 as the whole available collection and 4 story cards as the required size of each complete pack. Take exactly 4 at a time into a new named pack; check that size before calling it complete. There are 3 complete packs and 0 whole story cards aside. 4+4+4=12; The requested number 3 names packs; 4 names members in one pack. A leftover group of fewer than 4 is not another complete pack. Count or rebuild all original members to check; repeated addition, known groups or a supported subtraction model are possible taught methods, not a required memorised division fact.
Review the actual work
Can a reader identify the whole source, requested quantity, equality/complete-size condition, any leftover and a valid whole-collection check? Record source exposure and assistance. No actual helper success is presumed.
Full different extension
A complete different project job
In a separately reset job, twelve whole story cards are shared equally between four pretend story makers. How many cards does each maker receive?
Keep the first guide. Read this entire separate job and let the child try before using its adult model. Make a separately named guide; compare the source, useful result unit and full check. Do not treat the changed collection as proof of unseen transfer.
My job
What is known
What I need to find
My model
Answer and meaning
My check
Adult teaching · open after the first try
Name 12 as the whole collection and 4 as the known number of recipients. Deal one story card to each recipient in a complete round, or make a different equal-allocation model the child can explain. After 3 complete rounds each recipient has 3 story cards; 0 whole story cards remain aside. Check every recipient has the same amount and that every member of the original collection is in exactly one recipient place or the leftover place. The collection check is 3 + 3 + 3 + 3=12. The requested answer names an amount per recipient, not the total or number of recipients. Do not split a whole card or invent more members; another fairness arrangement would need a different agreed job.
Let the child mix objects, a drawing, speech, signing, AAC, tactile marks or an exact directed helper. Read the whole source and allow processing time. Offer a quiet seated route and a pause. Record reading/motor access separately from hints that choose a mathematical step. These are choices, not fixed learning styles or neurotype assignments.