Year 1 have started to learn about equality and balancing number facts. The children have been deepening their understanding of the equals symbol = and know that it means 'the same as' and 'is equal to'. The children know that whatever is on one side of the equals symbol has the same value as whatever is on the other side.
We used cubes and counting objects to help us make numbers in different ways and then placed them on either side of the equals symbol. We used our speaking frame to describe what we had made, using different mathematical vocabulary for addition and equality.
Here are some of the balancing number sentences we made.
3 plus 3 is equal to 2 add 4
4 add 2 is equal to 5 plus 1
2 plus 3 plus 1 is equal to 2 and 2 and 2
1 add 1 add 1 add 1 add 1 add 1 is equal to 4 plus 2
The total of 3 and 2 and 1 is equal to 2 and 4
3 and 3 added together is equal to 5 plus 1
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