Level 1 · Mathematics M1.7

Sorting and counting

Sort things into groups and count them to answer a question.

Planned. This book is not written yet. Below is its plan, which a teacher can already use.

You are ready for this book if

You can count 18 beans and write the number.

One step up M2.7 Tables and charts
This book M1.7 Sorting and counting

The plan

M1.7.1 Sorting into groups
- Sort things by colour, shape or size
- Say the rule someone used to sort a heap
M1.7.2 Yes or no
- Sort things into two groups: has it, or does not have it
- Sort the same things in two different ways
M1.7.3 Tally marks
- Keep count with tally marks in groups of five
- Read a tally and say how many
M1.7.4 Picture charts
- Make a picture chart where one picture stands for one thing
- Read a picture chart to find the most and the fewest
M1.7.5 Ask, count and tell
- Ask a question, collect the answers and show them
- Answer 'how many more' questions from a chart

For parents and teachers

Level 1 fits learners who can already: listen to a story. count a few things. In many schools that is about 5 to 7, but start wherever the learner is.

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