Groups and Amounts

If this feels hard, let them count on paper, circling the apples a few at a time.

Exercise 1

Make bundles of apples.

  • Attention
  • Memory
  • Problem solving
Apples laid out in five rows of eight
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There are 5 rows of 8 apples, 40 apples in all. In bundles of three you get 13 bundles with 1 apple left over. In bundles of five you get 8 bundles, and in bundles of ten you get 4 bundles.

Exercise 2

Find the cup containing about the same amount of water as the cup in the example, and write its number.

  • Attention
  • Problem solving
Example: a cup about half full of water
Example
A cup about one-third full of water
①
A cup about one-third full of water
②
A cup about half full of water
③
A cup almost full of water
④
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Cup ③. Cups ① and ② hold less water, and ④ holds more.