This section is designed to help children think about the properties of numbers and why we need them.
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Investigations
| 1. World without Number | How numbers are used in everyday life |
| 2. Sort it Out | Choosing criteria for sorting and classifying |
| 3. Take Your Partners | Developing the ability to match two objects |
| 4. Enough for Everyone? | One-to-one matching between objects |
| 5. More or Less? | Comparing the number of objects by matching |
| 6. What’s the Order? | Ordering different amounts of continuous materials |
| 7. How Big? How Small? | Size involves comparisons |
| 8. Repeating Patterns | Sequences that repeat |
| 9. What are numbers? | The ways in which the same number may be written or spoken |
| 10. Looking at numbers | Helping to build the concept of what a number is |
| 11. What Counts? | How numbers can be used to find out how many of something there is |
| 12. Ways of Counting | Counting is done all over the world |
| 13. How many are there? | Discovering the numbers of objects around you |
| 14. How many altogether? | Understanding addition |
| 15. How many here? | Addition and subtraction within a range of contexts |