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Beans

Material

cartons with the numbers 1 to 10 Numbering over 55

beans or chips identical

Interest

The child discovers even numbers and odd numbers.

When is odd, the door is closed ...

When is even, the door is open!

Presentation

Adults asks the child to install the card numbers in numerical order from 1 to 10, and from left to right. Then the adult

tip number 1, it takes a bean in his hand and said, "1". He puts the bean in the figure 1. He points to the figure 2, takes 2 beans "1, 2," in his hand and has the number 2 in taking care to make two columns. He points to the figure 3, takes 3 beans in his hand "1 2 3" and has under item 3, by 2 columns. The third bean will be "closed door" and will be placed between the two beans below. So on until 10. He arranges the beans, then invites the child to do the same. Once the child completed, the adult asked him to read the whole story. He points to the figure, "said one dragging his finger to the bean. The finger can slip beyond. The adult says 1, the door is closed. He did the same for 2, but the finger slides past two beans. He said "the door is open". So on until 10. Then he invites the child to do the same.

Once the child to handle several times without error and equipment, he said, you know, when the door is closed, it says the number is odd. When the door is open, it says that the figure is even. He reread the story, replacing " the door is open "by peer and" the door is closed "by odd. It offers the child to do the same.

prerequisite

The child knows how to handle without error bars and digital time. He knows how to place the numbers 1 to 10 in numerical order from left to right. If this is not the case, first to work the numbers alone. The child check his work with a digital tape on which figures are written, it unfolds and place below his numbers.