Orientating Rekenrek!

Today, Reception children explored a new mathematical resource that they will be using in their learning going forward. The children learnt that it was called a "rekenrek". We discussed how many red beads were on the top row and how many white beads were on the top row.  The children said that there was the same amount of beads on the bottom row as on the top row and we used the language "equal to" to compare. 

The children used excellent listening skills to get their rekenrek in the 'ready position' - beads on the right hand side of the rack. 

The children learnt how to move the beads on the rekenrek using their first finger on their dominant hand to push the beads to the other end of the row.

Here we are show different numbers on our rekenrek by pushing the beads over to the left side of the row ensuring our beads remained together as a group. This helped to consolidate our composition of numbers to 10, using the '5 and a bit' structure.

​Super learning Team EO!