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Faction: Teachers · Type: Digital · Price: €9.95 (excl tax) · Comes After: My First Comparisons · Same Spell As: Brainblankets · Crossgroups · Numnogram · Splitzoo

My First Groups

Once an Apprentice can contrast and compare They are ready for the next step of this school Instead of saying things are different, that’s that This resource teaches how to put things in the same or a different group

This is the final “spell” for Level 1 Mathematics. If your Apprentice can meet these challenges, they’re ready to move to Level 2 and learn all about numbers, counting, addition, and more.

This resource is about “grouping”: looking at a bunch of things and making sense of them. Creating order by dividing it into smaller groups.

It starts with the common, easy ways to group, such as “all the RED things” or “all the BIG things”. Your Apprentice(s) can likely already do this just fine, but it’s still good to start there and strengthen this skill.

Then the resource moves onto harder and harder groupings. Through a wide variety of challenges, Apprentices are asked to compare things and find patterns, common links, or just create sensible subgroups. As always, the exercises are as physical and visual as possible, with most of them automatically revealing if you did it right (such as by revealing a recognizable image when done).

REMARK! The resource also briefly touches on the idea of “tables” or “grids”. We do this not only because it’s a relevant topic, but also because they are VERY common elements in puzzles, escape rooms and games. Thus, we wanted to prepare Apprentices for what they are and what they look like, so they’ll struggle far less with the other Factions of this online store.
REMARK! This is effectively a “simpler” pre-counter version of “My First Patterns”. In this resource, the patterns are all very tangible and simple things: “Oh, all these animals have a tail, and all these animals don’t!” Level 2 will add more abstract or complicated patterns/groups, involving a wider variety of skills.

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  • Explainer of Grouping / Categorization.
  • Are These The Same Group? (Colors/Animals)
  • Group Circling
  • Connect The Dots (Groups)
  • Grouping Tables I + II
  • Color The Groups
  • Grouping Maze (find the right path by sticking to icons from the same group)
  • Panda Diagram (simplified introduction Venn Diagrams)
  • Cross Group Puzzle (draw lines to split icons into groups)
  • Grouping Activities
  • Group Cut-out Tiles
  • Grouping Tarsia
  • Grouping Pyramid (group rectangles such that they fit the staircase pyramid in terms of size)
  • Double Grouping Challenge (groups inside groups)