The purpose of this “unit” is to recognise the numbers 0 to 10 as represented using the quinary pattern on the tens frame. This develops the students’ ability to visualise the quinary patterns and is fundamental to future work with tens frames and visualising number patterns.
Form the sets 0-10 on to an empty tens frame, using a quinary pattern (five in a row).
Pre-requisite knowledge / skills: students need to be secure in one to one counting and the forming of sets to 10.
One to one counting
Teacher creates interest, for example, by telling a story about teddies on a bus.
Teacher makes a group of five teddies and asks:
How many teddies have I got?
Teacher and students count the teddies together 1-1.
Teacher demonstrates counting the five teddies on to the empty frame.
Teacher spreads multiple copies of the tens frames (0-5) in front of the students and asks
Who can find me a pattern that matches the teddies?
How could you check that it’s the same?
Teacher encourages students to share their thinking in an open discussion. Possible solutions include count it with finger, match them – side by side or on top. Teacher establishes the link that 5 teddies have been replaced by 5 dots.
Repeat above with 1 – 4 teddies
For zero teddies: Teacher shows the students no teddies and asks them to find the matching tens frame.
Teacher gives each student their own set of tens frames to work with.
Teacher asks the students to put the tens frames 0-5 in order. Students work on this together, discussing the task as they carry it out
Note: This type of activity needs to be repeated as long as required with different materials and different contexts – until students are confident in this skill. This may take many weeks.
Additional Activities
The following list of activities could form the basis for further development of one to one counting using tens frames.
Broadening activities
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