Starfish Story: Amy Williams
A girl in my numeracy class was struggling with a lot of the work because she had trouble with the basics of counting. She couldn’t count backwards. She confused teens with tens, for example ‘fifteen’ and ‘fifty’. She also found it difficult to write numbers in the hundreds. We started working on counting for 15 minutes a day, 3 days a week and she is now able to count upwards correctly. After teaching her that 15 ends in ‘teen’ and 50 ends in ‘ty’ she can also correctly identify those numbers and others in that pattern. Even more impressive is that she spontaneously wrote down and correctly said the numbers from 118 down to 110 (the latter being the number she struggled with the most).
