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Week beginning 10th November - Comparison 

This week, our activities will be focusing on comparing the number of objects in 2 sets by matching them 1:1.  Seeing that objects in some sets can be matched without any being left over draws the children's attention to instances when the quantities of objects are equal.

Language will be a key focus and adults will be reinforcing the language of 'more than', 'fewer than' and 'an equal number' to describe how many objects there are in each set. As the focus this week is on countable things, 'fewer than' is used rather than 'less than' and 'more than' is used rather than 'greater than'.