Train Carriages
This is a rather useful activity for pupils as young as year 1/2 -
more able. The activity came about in order to achieve something
which would be interesting for the pupils and take the children on
in their understanding of place value. On the whole I find that
youngsters can work very well with numbers up to about 36 without
having to start grouping in tens.
But when the need arises to start place value considerations I
believe it is good to use numbers that they have already dealt
with, without them considering the grouping of the tens. The
results from children have shown that this activity allows for a
lot of discussion and the beginnings of certain patterning ideas.
It has also been useful to help pupils start creating their own
systems for doing these kinds of investigations. I shall be very
pleased to hear how very, very able year 1/2 children do and how
far they extend it.