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Mild Numeracy – Sharing – using symbols

Thank you so much for all the photographs you have sent  showing you sharing an amount of objects equally.

Let’s think about sharing a box of crayons.

Dividing a box of crayons equally between jars.

We can write number stories using symbols.

This is the symbol we use for sharing.

÷

There is one dot on each side of the line. Both have the same.

I think it looks like two people sitting across from each other, ready to be kind and share with each other.

Have a look at these examples.