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Numbers all around us
Learner’s Book 1: Unit 1, pp. 10–12
GoalNotice numbers around us and count a small set of objects by saying one number for each object.
New words
count · say the numbers in order, one for each thinghow many · the number of things in a setset · a group of things that go together
Explanation
Numbers are everywhere: on buses, on doors, on football shirts and on food packets. Sometimes a number is just a name, like bus number 7. Other times a number tells us how many things there are. To find out how many, we count. Point to each object and say one number for it: 1, 2, 3, 4. Do not skip an object and do not count one twice. The last number you say is how many there are in the set.
Worked examples
Count the apples: touch each one and say 1, 2, 3, 4. The last number is 4, so there are 4 apples.
Count the pencils: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. There are 6 pencils. If we move them around, there are still 6.
Class activity
Number hunt: walk around the classroom or home and find 5 places where you can see a number (a clock, a door, a book, a phone). Say each number out loud. Then count the chairs at your table.
Practice
1
How many birds?
3
2
Count the stars.
5
3
A bus has the number 7 on it. Does the 7 tell you how many people are on the bus?
No. Here 7 is the bus’s name (a label), not how many people.
4
Mia counts her toy cars: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How many cars does she have?
5 — the last number she says.