By Claire Barnes, Willow Dene School Add Two A multi-sensory presentation to promote the concept, vocabulary and symbols of addition and skills in combining two sets to find a total By Claire Barnes, Willow Dene School

Click to make the first numeral appear. Ask the students to identify it. They could write it in the air or on a white board, or identify it on a number line or grid. Challenge them to show that many fingers or draw a set of that many objects on their whiteboard. Click to make the first set of objects appear. Encourage the students to count along (out loud, on their fingers, on a number line, or internally) with the visual and audio cues. Click to make the next part of the sum appear. Ask students to “read” the sum. Click to make the second set of objects appear. Again, encourage the students to count them in time with the visual and audio cues. Click to make the “equals” symbol appear. Encourage students to identify it with the vocabulary with which they are familiar (makes or equals). “Read” the sum as it is shown (e.g. “Two apples add two bananas makes…how many altogether?”) Click to count the objects as an entire set, supplemented by numeral and audio cues. Encourage students to count along with these. Ask the students “How many altogther?”, then click to show the answer. Repeat for the rest of the slides. For the final slide, review the sums. Suggest that looking at the numbers as a pattern could help the students to remember the answers. Click to make the pictures change order so that they start with the smallest number and progress to the biggest one. Identify and discuss the patterns in the sums and their answers. On the last slide, click to make the learning outcome appear and click again to trigger the smiley face and applause.

2 + 2 = 4 1 3 2 4

5 + 2 = 7 2 6 1 3 7 4 5

3 + 2 = 5 1 4 2 3 5

4 + 2 = 6 1 2 5 4 3 6

7 + 2 = 9 1 2 8 4 3 5 9 6 7

1 + 2 = 3 2 1 3

6 + 2 = 8 1 2 7 3 4 8 5 6

8 + 2 = 10 2 1 9 3 4 10 5 6 7 8