Week 3: Chapter 2

The information in chapter 2 is directly related to the Patterning and Partitioning videos. In this unit, the students are exploring the number relationships that will be the foundation for all of their future work with numbers. The students are focusing on the four types of relationships for numbers 1-10. The students work on spatial relationships, one and two more, on and two less relationships, anchors to 5 and 10, and part-part-whole relationships. The teachers use many of the tools mentioned in Chapter 2 to teach these relationships. For example, the dot patterns are used for spatial relationships. The 10 frames and double 10 frames are used to anchor the numbers to 5 and 10. The monkeys in a tree and double decker bus lessons are used to teach part-part-whole relationships. The double tens frame lesson can help extend these relationship concepts past the number ten.

My favorite activities in this chapter were the tow activities that were based on the game of "War." This is a game that many children know and will be able to connect these new number concepts to the game. I like that this game can utilize many of the number relationships to find out what number each child has. This allows the children to come up with their own method and gives them some freedom to problem solve. I also think that the children will have fun with this activity. This will make them more motivated to work with the numbers and their relationships.