Nine children had been playing pretend

families, and had removed their shoes. It

was almost time for lunch and their teacher

asked how many shoes they'd need to find?

Fetching paper and pens, Stanley drew a

a horseshoe shape to represent each pair 

of legs and feet. Then counting in twos, he

wrote the numbers from 2 - 16. Recounting 

he found he's missed one pair, and wrote

'18' in his own way, at the foot of the page.

The maths: Counting in twos

The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that

ARE counted.

Tim was in the garden, lifting some fence

posts onto a trolley. He spent a long time

transporting the logs to another area, and

later his teacher wondered how many logs

he'd moved? His response was to represent

the many logs, and his teacher wrote each

number as he pointed to them. Finally Tim

explained, "They're very long", and "This says

"Do not move my logs and do not park here".

The maths: Counting 

The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that

ARE counted.

Saja wrote these lines, then counted

them in Arabic (her first language): 

Wahid, ithan, thelatha, araba'a, khumsa",

then continuing in English said, "Five"

and "seven".

The maths: Counting 

The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that

ARE counted.