Back to the on-screen lesson · Print

Stories about adding

Working out that a story is about putting together.

Paper packet. Every task here also exists on screen, where it is checked automatically; answers written on paper are not assessed by Nydus. When you are back at a device, enter your answers there.

1. What you will learn

In this lesson you listen to a story and work out that two groups are being put together.

2. Get ready

Count a small group by touching each thing once. You can use fingers, counters or a drawing.

3. Story words

4. Act out the story

Two toy frogs sit on a mat. Three more frogs hop onto it. The first frogs stay. Move three counters beside two counters and count them all. There are five. Adding tells how many are together. Listen to what happens, not just to one word in the story.

5. Match each part

Point to the counters for the frogs already there. Point to the counters for the arriving frogs. Point around the whole group for the question: how many now? If no frog arrives, the total stays the same. Check by telling the story again with your model. Do not make a new counter for the answer; the answer names the whole group.

6. Three cups are on a tray. Two more are added.

1. Show the cups first. [Three cup counters and two added cup counters]

   ● ● ●

   These three stay on the tray.

2. Put two beside them.

   ● ● ● + ● ● = 5

   All five cups belong to the new total.

7. Four blocks are here. One more arrives.

1. Keep the first group. [Four block counters and one new counter]

   4 blocks

   They have not gone away.

2. Your turn: work this step out. Its working is at the end of the packet.

   Count after adding one.

8. Guided practice

There are 2 birds on a fence. 5 birds join them. How many birds now?

Answer:

9. Guided practice

There are 2 birds on a fence. 5 birds join them. How many birds now?

Answer:

10. Practice

There are 3 birds on a fence. 3 birds join them. How many birds now?

Answer:

11. Somewhere new

A box has 4 buttons. Another has 1. Which shows putting all the buttons together?

• 4 + 1
• 4 - 1
• 1 - 4

12. Lesson test

Lesson test: one question per skill, one attempt each, no hints. Your answers are checked when you submit.

13. Test question

There are 3 birds on a fence. 4 birds join them. How many birds now?

Answer:

14. What you can do now

You can tell that a story is about adding. Three ducks swim and two more come — what do you do?

Working for the steps left to you

7. Four blocks are here. One more arrives., step 2