Unit 01 // Session D // Master when ready
When the answer goes past ten, make the ten first. Then say it as ten and something. Dix et cinq.
Ten and something.
Start here every time. Say the words out loud: ten and five is fifteen.
Fill the frame first.
The pale dots move across to fill the first frame. Now the ten is there, on the paper, where you can see it.
Split the second number.
How many does the first number need to reach ten? Take that much, and see what is left over.
Now the whole answer, on your own.
Whisper the ten, then say the total. The ten never disappears.
Which route? Circle the one you used.
Numbers one apart: use a double. One number is 8 or 9 and the other is small: make the ten.
She says the total, not the leftover. "Ten and five, fifteen." If she answers a bridging question with the small number alone, the ten is still being dropped, so go back to question 1.
Ask the last question so the ten comes last, never the leftover. Not "and what is left from the seven?" but "the frame is full, so that is a ten, and how many are outside?" Then have her say the whole thing herself: ten and five, fifteen.
Keep the counters on the table until she stops needing them. A child who has to remember the ten will drop it. A child who can see the ten will not.
MathNest · Unit 01 · Session D · Cross the ten