Number representations to 10
Number representations are different ways of showing a number.
You can use numbers, picture, objects and words.
For example, here are some different ways of representing the number 3.
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What number is this?
Let's look at some different ways to represent a number.
Here are some representations of the same number. Can you work out what it is?
Image caption, What number is this?
1 of 4
These are representations of the number 2.
What number can you see?
Here are some more representations.
What number can you see this time?
Image caption, Which number is being represented?
1 of 5
These representations all show the number 5.
Odd one out
Now look at these representations.
Which one does not show the number 7?
Image caption, Which of these images does not show 7?
1 of 5
Example 1
Here are some number representations.
What number is this?
✓ These representations show 4.
You can count the dots on the dice.
There are 4 dots.
You can also count the beads and the teddy bears.
There are 4 beads.
There are 4 teddy bears
You can read the word – it is 4! You can write the word ‘four’.
Example 2
Here are some representations of a number.
What number can you see?
✓ These are representations of the number 6.
You can count there are 6 counters in the tens frame.
The part-whole model contains 2 lots of 3.
3 + 3 = 6
There are also two dice. Each dice has 3 dots.
3 + 3 = 6
All of these number representations show 6.
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