7. WHICH NUMBERS HAVE SAME
COLOR?
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1
2 5
7
3
4
8
9 6
How many times does your favorite color
show up here?
8. • To identify ‘how much’?
• To relate digits or numerals to quantities
• To learn about sequence or order, what comes
before or after.
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9. • Numbers, counting helps us to think
• When we think, we can imagine
• It helps to solve problems
• Thinking is useful - see story below
Do you remember the story of tortoise, the one who opened his mouth without thinking?
What happened?
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10. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO
COUNT?
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How many black dots are here?
12. LET US PUT ALL THE DOTS IN A LINE.
IS IT EASIER TO SPOT THE GRAY DOTS NOW?
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PUTTING DOTS IN A LINE MAKES IT EASY TO
COUNT THEM.
THIS IS CALLED A LIST OR A SEQUENCE OF
DOTS.
13. THERE IS NO ORDER HERE.
DIFFICULT TO COUNT.
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DOTS ARE IN LINE.
EASY TO COUNT!
14. • How many squares do you see?
• How many squares have black dots or circles?
• How many squares don’t have any dots or circles?
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15. • Let’s find out how many students are there in the classroom
• Can you tell how many seats are there in the classroom?
• Is the number of students same as seats?
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16. • Everyone sit on your desks. No one gets up.
• The teacher will now pass an object (for e.g., a Duster or a
notebook) to the student nearest to her.
• Each student must take the object, then give it to next student.
Keep passing it on until all students get to touch the object.
• Let the last student who touched the object keep it for now.
• Did everyone get to touch the object?
• How many children touched it just once? More than once?
• Now ask the last student to return the object to the teacher. Not all
students need to touch it. Ask them to pass it back as quickly as
possible by using only a few students.
• How many students touched the object while returning it to the
teacher?
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17. • Are there any students in the class with the same name?
• How many?
• How do we ‘identify’ students with same names?
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Nicknames Last Name / Surname
18. • What is the first alphabet of your name?
• Say it out aloud.
• All students whose name begins with ‘A’ raise your hands.
• Let us count how many students have first name starting with
alphabet ‘A’.
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19. • Which student’s name begins with alphabet ‘S’?
• Say your name out aloud.
• All students whose name begins with ‘S’ raise your hands.
• Let us count how many students have first name starting with
alphabet ‘S’.
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20. • Now we have both numbers: Number of students with first
names starting with ‘A’ and those starting with ‘S’
• Can you tell which number is larger?
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21. • To share food equally, for example - Pizza slices
• To share seats in the class, everyone gets to sit
• Movie Hall - everyone with a ticket gets to sit
• To read time on a watch, clock, or mobile phone
• To know what comes before, after or in between
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22. WHAT DID WE LEARN
TODAY?
• N U M B E R S
• C O U N T I N G
• W H Y D O W E N E E D N U M B E R S
A N D C O U N T I N G ?
• E X A M P L E S I N DAY TO DAY L I F E
