Continuing Our Counting Project

Here in room 5 we have been moving forward with our big counting project. This week as partners continue counting sets of objects and recording their counting, we are discussing grouping. So far we explored different types of grouping and decided which were the most useful when it came to counting the groups. Students made important discoveries, learning that grouping by number is more effective than grouping by color, each group has to contain the same number of items, and we need to group items in a way that we know how to count (grouping by 5 or 10, rather than a grouping we are unfamiliar counting). Through this discovery project students have developed their thinking about how to organize and count large sets of objects effectively and efficiently in a short time! It is exciting to see how they help each other to try new strategies and, through discussion and exploration, develop more successful methods of counting and keeping track of their work! Below are a number of great photos of students at work. If you look at the photos from the first day of our counting project, then compare them to these photos from the last few days, you will see the developing organizational strategies students are using to help them count.

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