Lesson Four – Dominoes
This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting, ordering and comparing a set of domino dot shapes using each of the different numbers to ten.
The class can compare the value of dominoes by counting their displayed dots and by producing matching examples of dominoes that could be used to play a game.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise counting, ordering and comparing a set of domino dot shapes using each of the different numbers to ten
Activities in this teaching pack include sets of cards to practise counting, ordering and comparing shapes using each of the different numbers to ten when working with dots recorded on large and small examples of dominoes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count, order and compare shapes using different numbers up to ten for a domino matching game.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to count, record and compare sets of different objects to ten and identify the matching numbers using numerals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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