About This Lesson
Give the dummies to the babies and ask students how many more are needed? How many babies are left without dummies? Relate this to 'difference', eg 6 crying babies, 4 dummies, what is the difference? Explore expressing a problem using subtraction and addition, eg there are 7 babies but only 4 dummies - the difference is 3; we have 4 dummies, but 7 babies so let's count on from 4 to 7...Appropriate for Early Childhood Education (Pre-K and younger). ECE-LT, ECE-MA, ECE-LT-vo, ECE-LT-sp, ECE-MA-co
Great way to reinforce addition and subtraction in a real life situation