Video Transcript
What is the number on the
domino?
Different dominoes represent
different numbers. And the way they do this is by
showing different numbers of dots. In the picture, we can see a domino
that we’re being asked about. We’re being asked what is the
number on the domino. To find out, we need to count those
dots. So that we count every single dot
and we don’t miss any out and we don’t count any twice, let’s put a counter on each
dot to start with. We have the same number of counters
as dots. So let’s move each counter one by
one onto the ten frame. And as we do, we can count
them.
So how many dots are there? There’s one, two, three, four,
five. We know this cause we’ve filled the
first line of our ten frame. Let’s keep counting, six, seven,
eight. We’ve counted eight counters. So there must be eight dots. We can write the number eight using
the digit eight, just like this. We found the number on the domino
by counting each of the dots. We found there were eight of
them. The number on the domino is
eight.
