Doubles Doubles, we love doubles

Room10 are learning to use doubles to help them solve a problem.  Here is a video we found to help us.

At school 18 July

Today Room 10 did some amazing thinking to solve the problem of how many people were at school.
We discovered that we had 7 boys and 7 girls and got excited because this is a double.
Sifa and Forbes said we could use 5+5 to help us.  We rearranged the people so that there were 5 boys and 5 girls on the first bus.  This left 2 boys and 2 girls to go on the second bus.  Another double!
We could see that 5+5 was ten and 2+2 was four, but we had trouble solving 10+4.
Danielle said we could count the others, but that we didn't need to start from 1.  By counting on from 10 we learnt that there were 14 people at school today.
I hope we get more doubles tomorrow!!!