- Representing quantities that are NOT counted
Grandpa's birthday cake
Gaya (4 years, 6 months) was thinking about her Grandad's forthcoming birthday. She drew around a small cutting board, explaining her drawing as a 'Hello Kitty' cake. "Grandpa's really old, he's 30!", and whilst she knew his age, she drew only a few candles (the small pink circles). Later Gaya explained to her teacher "He really has to have thirty candles!"
The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that are NOT counted
The Maths: number. age
William's CheetahWilliam explained he’d drawn a cheetah with lots of spots, ‘I would guess 89 maybe. The numbers are its size and I measured how long with the ruler.’ The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that is NOT counted The maths: Estimation
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The inventoryThe teacher had asked the children to help make an inventory of furniture and resources in the room for the school secretary. Karl (4 years, 9 months) decided to count the tables in the classroom. He then added ‘Lots of legs’ of the chairs beneath the tables, finally writing the number ‘10’ at the top.
The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that ARE counted; representing quantities that are NOT counted. The maths: Counting |
'Hundreds and Pounds!'Charlotte (4 years, 2 months) and her friend were playing with lots of coloured pens. They both held lots of pens without their tops, excitedly making dots and naming them as, ‘Hundreds and pounds! Hundreds and pounds!’’ The Taxonomy: Representing quantity that is NOT counted. The maths: Quantity |
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Joe's spiderJoe (4 years, 3 months) knows that spiders have eight legs. On this day he had been playing with some toy spiders in the nursery, and decided to draw a picture of one. Like the numerous chair legs Karl had represented, Joe conveyed his impression of many legs. The Taxonomy: Representing a quantity that is NOT counted. The maths: Quantity |
Where the animals live
After hearing the s tory A new house for mouse, Ross (3 years, 3 months) drew on a low whiteboard, representing one hole at a time. As he drew each circle, pointing to each in turn he told his key person, "A hole for a chicken to live; a monster hole; a snake hole; a baby snake hole; a dragon hole; a big dinosaur hole". He had carefully focused on the relative size of each hole he'd drawn and matched each to the size of the animal.
The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that are NOT counted
The Maths: Matching one-to-one
William (4 years 6 months) was fascinated by 'Star Wars' and often played out various scenes with his friend. Here he has drawn a light sabre for each of his favourite characters from the Star Wars film. The colours are important, for example, red is for for ‘Darth Maul’. His teacher explained, "William draws hundreds of these pictures at the moment – either of light sabres or bows and arrows from the Lord of the Rings - they seem to be linked to his fascination with counting or amounts, and he will count all sorts of objects, again and again".
The Taxonomy: Representing quantities that are NOT counted
The maths: Matching one-to-one