ecm number bonds for kindergarten

Course Lecturer

Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute

Pre-Numeracy

Skills

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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

e-mail

yeapbanhar@gmail.comSlides

www.banhar.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/MCISingapore

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

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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