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Understand and use one more

Description:

Pupils are able to understand and use the concept of one more.

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Section: Early Years (0-5yrs) info; Primary (5-11yrs) info

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Activity/strategy name and materials required	How to do the activity	Key principles for doing the activity and comments
Tea party 3 soft toys plastic tea set plastic food two bowls and fruit to cut into fruit salad	Have a tea party. Hand out the food. Point out which ones have more. Ask the child to give a piece of plastic food to one of the toys so that it has one more - say that it has got "one more". Make fruit salad. Use two bowls. Cut up fruit for the two bowls and ask 'One more piece of banana here? Can the child tell you what to add to each bowl using 'one more'?	Avoid working on "one more" and "one less" together until the child has mastered both of these. When both are mastered, you can mix both concepts in this activity, for example asking "one less banana here?"
Number line	(1) Use a number line and mark a central point with a red dot stuck on with blue tack. Ask the child 'show me one more' and model one more e.g. say 'look....one more is ....' and put a small blue dot on the number with Blu-tac. (2) Move the central red dot and ask the child to show you 'one more' again.	Avoid working on "one more" and "one less" together until the child has mastered both of these.