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This is the presentation made at the course on Number Bonds for teachers of kindergarten children.
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Course Lecturer
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
Pre-Numeracy
Skills
We use numbers in different ways.
Let’s count the ways …
Rote Counting
Rational Counting
Counting – cardinal numbers
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers
NominalNumbers
Measurement Numbers
Pre-Numeracy
Skills
What is involved in counting?
Let’s take a look…
Variation
Features of Singapore Math
Matching
Sorting
Main Pre-Numeracy Skills
CPA Approach
Features of Singapore Math
Integration with other domains e.g. art and craft and literature
Thinking Opportunity
Features of Singapore Math
Course Lecturer
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
N u m b e r B o n d s
Number Bonds
The focus on number sense right from the start. Number bonds is taught before addition.
Number Bonds is emphasized prior to the learning of addition.
Children are given, say, 5 unifix cubes and guided to see that 1 and 4 make 5, for example. Others may say that 3 and 2 make 5 or 4 and 1 make 5. Yet others may say that 5 and 0 make 5.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics
Number Bonds
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
One duck is big. Six ducklings are small.
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
Number Bonds continues to receive attention in Grade 1. M
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Struggling Average Advanced
How many boys are there? How many girls are there? How many children are there altogether?
Spiral Approach
Features of Singapore Math
