In maths we have been looking at splitting 5 in different ways using objects. The two key words that we have been using are “whole” and “part”. To begin with, we had a teddy bears’ picnic in our classroom with fruit! We put 5 pieces of fruit (the whole) into a hoop, then looked at different ways that we could split the whole into two different parts for two hungry bears e.g (five and zero, four and one, three and two…). We have continued to explore this in our maths work using different contexts, using cubes and pictures to represent different objects.
You can continue to have fun with this at home during your daily routine: how many different ways can you split five grapes or five toothbrushes into two parts?
