Lesson Three – Counting Cows

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and recording the matching sums to ten that one less than different numbers of animals that can found living on a farm.

The class can explain and model how to use number lines to record the sums that are one less than different numbers of counted objects to support their subtraction calculations.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise counting and recording the matching sums to ten that one less than different numbers of animals that can found living on a farm

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to count and record numbers of farm animals and record the matching sums that are one less and a set of cards to select and order each of the numbers to ten written in words to make a model necklace.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count one less for different numbers of animals that can found living on a farm to ten.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to identify and record counted sets of objects that are one less than different numbers to ten on the theme of farms and farming. 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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