After counting, what can we notice?

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After counting, what can we notice?

Counting is a starting point. Compare activities that ask children to make a quantity, compare two groups and organize what they have counted.

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Choose by the skill being explored. HOP, STEP and JUMP describe Chicodori content levels, not overseas school grades. The branch descriptions explain what to look for in each activity.

HOP · MathNumbers & place value
HOP · MathData & graphs

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Count, compare & represent illustrationCount, compare & represent
Make the Same Number · activity previewUnderstand a quantityConnect a number with a groupExplore the activities ＋More, Fewer or the Same? · activity previewCompare quantitiesCompare totals and notice groupsExplore the activities ＋Tables & Picture Graphs · activity previewRepresent the resultsOrganize numbers by categoryExplore the activities ＋

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Getting a total and using the total

A counted quantity can be recreated, compared or recorded. Moving between these activities helps reveal what the child understands about the number.

Where to explore next

Number names, numerals and quantities ›What can we learn to read in a graph? ›
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Understand a quantity

Connect a number with a group

Make the Same Number · activity previewJapanese activity →

Make the Same Number

Place a matching quantity

Compare naming a quantity with independently placing the same number of objects.

What to look for
Does the quantity placed match the count?
Where it can lead
Connecting numbers with quantities.
How Many? · activity previewJapanese activity →

How Many?

Read a quantity from a picture

Count objects and choose a numeral before organizing the results in a graph.

What to look for
How are missed objects and double counting checked?
Where it can lead
Organizing counts by category.

Compare quantities

Compare totals and notice groups

More, Fewer or the Same? · activity previewJapanese activity →

More, Fewer or the Same?

Compare two quantities

Choose more, fewer or the same from the relationship between two groups.

What to look for
Does the child distinguish visual area from the number of objects?
Where it can lead
Differences between quantities and picture graphs.
Count in Groups · activity previewJapanese activity →

Count in Groups

Notice useful groups of blocks

Read the number of blocks, noticing groups such as fives instead of counting only one by one.

What to look for
Which blocks are treated as a group?
Where it can lead
Organizing numbers and calculating with groups.

Represent the results

Organize numbers by category

Tables & Picture Graphs · activity previewJapanese activity →

Tables & Picture Graphs

Count by category, then represent

Count characters and show the results in a table or graph.

What to look for
Do categories match their totals? What can be read after recording them?
Where it can lead
Reading bar graphs and line graphs.

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