Grouping and Sorting
What do we notice about the items around us?
As we play and manipulate the materials around us, we explore important Maths concepts such as value, patterns, length, group, categorization and properties. Here are some examples of categorization.
Ruby sorted out the buttons. She explained that she has a rainbow group, a pink, orange, green, blue, yellow and white group.
Why is there a rainbow group? What makes it a rainbow group? Can you guess?
Poli and Alejandra have been sorting the mosaic tiles by colour.
Amber and Poli have been sorting the letters out by colour.
Freida and Felix have been sorting the shells by shape.
We sorted out pictures of our hair in two different ways, by colour and style.
Sarah and Freida were souring out beads by colour.
Why do we sort and group?
What are some other ways we sort and group items?
We continue to explore…
SLO’s
- sort objects
- begin to explain data using simple language such as same and different / more or less