43. Number Bonds
The focus on number sense right from the start.
Number bonds is taught before addition.
44. Number Bonds
Number Bonds is
emphasized prior to the learning
of addition.
Children are given, say, 5 unifix
cubes and guided to see that 1
and 4 make 5, for example.
Others may say that 3 and 2
make 5 or 4 and 1 make 5. Yet
others may say that 5 and 0 make
5.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics
96. Addition
Facts Facts
Addition are given
emphasis in the first six months
of grade one.
The children learn it in stages as
the textbooks distinguished
between Numbers to 10 and
Numbers to 20.
Count On and Count All are used
in Numbers to 10.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics
97. Addition Facts & Number Sense
While Count On and
Count All are used in
Numbers to 10, Make
Ten is given emphasis in
Numbers to 20.
Princess Elizabeth Primary School
The topics are arranged in a
way that makes learning
progressive and systematic –
this is part of the idea of a
spiral curriculum.
98. Jerome Bruner
Ideas are introduced using concrete materials.
Pictorial representations follow. Finally, children
engage with the abstract symbols. This is called the
CPA Approach in Singapore.