The purpose of this How Many Do You See? is for students to subitize or use grouping strategies to describe the images they see. Recognizing and describing 1 more than a given quantity will be useful in the next section when students work on creating and identifying 1 more than a given quantity or number.

When students use the structure of the 5-frame to recognize and describe quantities, they look for and make use of structure (MP7).

• Display the images with 6 dots on a 5-frame and 7 dots on a 5-frame. 
• “¿Qué cambió de ese grupo a este grupo?” // “What changed from this group to this group?” (There was 1 more dot. There were 6 and now there are 7.)

The purpose of this activity is for students to revisit Stage 1 of the Math Stories center. In an earlier variation, students asked and answered “how many?” questions about groups of images in different arrangements. In this activity, students represent how many images there are using drawings, numbers, or words. Using written numbers to represent how many images there are is highlighted in the Activity Synthesis.

The purpose of this activity is to represent quantities of 1‒10 objects using a number. Students practice counting groups of 1‒10 objects and recognizing and writing numbers. In the Activity Synthesis, students determine how many objects are in a bag based on the number label, which encourages them to connect numbers to quantities (MP2). Students develop their understanding that the arrangement of objects does not affect the quantity.

Any small classroom materials can be used to fill the mystery bags, such as buttons, connecting cubes, or pencils. Collections that students bring from home can also be used.

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that offer practice composing, decomposing, and comparing numbers.

Students choose any previously introduced stage from these centers:

• Math Stories
• Math Libs
• Bingo
• Number Race
• Geoblocks
• Math Fingers