‘Counting 2’ chest of drawers

About the game

Where are there more strawberries, and where are there fewer pears? Are there the same number of bananas and apricots? Look at the brightly coloured fruit and vegetables, count them and find the right answers.

‘Chest of Drawers – Counting 2’ is a game for comparing quantities: the child determines where the number of items is the same, greater or fewer, whilst the coloured boxes make the tasks easy to visualise.

Familiar fruits and vegetables are transformed into little maths puzzles that are fun to solve on your own.

In the set

• a wooden chest-of-drawers with a pull-out drawer
• 7 slats with varying numbers of inserts: banana, apricot, pear, strawberry, pumpkin, cucumber, tomato, sweetcorn
• 4 sorting boxes with holes and pictures on both sides

How to play

1. Remove the slats.
2. The child counts the fruit and vegetables on each slat.
3. Sort the slats by quantity or into the boxes.

Where to start

Start with sets containing 1–3 items.

Game variations

• from 1 to 7 in order;
• ‘the same or not?’;
• name the fruit and vegetables;
• sort by type.

What children can practise

• counting up to 7
• the concepts of ‘more, less and the same’
• the names of fruit and vegetables

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.