Bead Bars: Changing the Order of the Addends

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Age

4-7.

Materials

  • Tten bars
  • Colored bead bar
  • Box of signs for operations

Preparation


Presentation

  1. The directress sets up an addition of two numbers, and the child completes the sum, placing the corresponding bead bars in their places.
  2. This equation is correct.
  3. The directress switches the places of the two colored bead bars. Is it still correct? Perhaps it was a coincidence; let's try another.

Control Of Error


Points Of Interest


Purpose

  • To give the concept of the commutative property of addition.

Variation


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