Display these virtual subitising cards to teach your students to instantly recognise quantities.
Subitising Activities Enhance Number Recognition
This set of teaching slides includes 74 virtual subitising cards that can be displayed to students during whole-group or guided-group instruction. Answers follow on the next slide.
Asking students to quickly determine the quantity of a small number of objects displayed is a foundational maths skill. The ability to subitise supports many other essential areas of maths, including:
- Number sense
- Counting
- Mental maths
- Pattern recognition
- Problem-solving
What is Subitising?
Subitising is the ability to instantly recognise the quantity of a small group of objects without counting them. It is a foundational skill in early number sense development. There are many ways to practise this with students! Here are a few ideas:
- Ten Frames: Display various quantities of counters in a ten frame. Ask students to quickly identify how many counters are present.
- Dice Games: Roll dice and ask students to quickly determine the number of dots on each die.
- Bingo: Play Bingo with number patterns. Call out numbers and have students cover the corresponding patterns on their bingo cards.
- Torch Fun: Turn the lights down low and shine a torch briefly on a dot pattern, asking students to determine the number of dots.
- Matching Games: Show a set of dots and ask students to select the corresponding number from a set of number cards.
Directions:
- Display a subitising card to students for a few seconds.
- Students quickly call out, raise their fingers, or write on a whiteboard to indicate how many objects they saw.
- Flip to the next card so students can check their answer.
- Continue to the next subitising card.
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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator.
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