Numbers

We interact and play with numbers daily in our classroom, but recently we started focusing on 'teen' numbers. Before beginning this focus we shared our thoughts/knowledge about numbers in general. The children were asked to share what they already know about numbers. This is the conversation that evolved with no teacher input. By recording the conversation we can then begin looking at our understanding more deeply and resolve misunderstandings.

Nora: Numbers don't go from right to left, they go from left to right.

Iris: Numbers don't go from 10 to 1, they go from 1 to 10.

Imram: You can count beans to figure out how many there are.

Sahan: You start at the top when writing numbers.

Aly: There is an order to numbers.

Mikail: You can't start counting at 19, you have to start at 1.

Nora: You can count like 2,4,6,8 and even higher than that by skipping some numbers.

Iris: You can count backward but you normally count forwards.

Shanza: You can count from 13 down to 1.

Aiden: You can count from 100 to 0.

Aylin: You can count from 1 to 9.

Cadyn: You can count backwards but not every time because if you just know the number you can just call it out.

Aly: You can count so much up to when the numbers stop. I don't when when numbers stop.

Aiden: Numbers never stop. Somebody told me that but I don't know why.

Sahan: You can even start counting at 100 and go to 1000.

Iris: You can start counting at any number and keep on going and going as many numbers as you know.

Nora: I know numbers never stop because there's always a higher number.

Imran: You can count beginning at 1 instead of 0. Numbers can be a bit hard at some times.

Sandeep: You can count up to 20.

Shanza: We would take one whole day to count all the numbers.

Iris: You can put numbers together to make a new number.