Video: Investigating quantities using more or fewer

﻿Hello everyone. And welcome to today's lesson. I hope you're having a great day. I've got my friend Reggie here today with me. Can we say hello Reggie. Reggie says hello everyone. Do you know in a while, Reggie and I are going to have a little mini tea-party. I've been busy preparing our snacks and sharing them into two containers. Do you want to take a look and see what we've got? Here we are. Here's Reggie's container and here's mine. We've got four pieces of food each. Do you think I did a great job at sharing them out? Oh, I can hear lots of you making different suggestions. Oh, Reggie doesn't think I did a good job at sharing them out. Reggie says there's a problem with the way I shared them into the containers. Take a look. I wonder if you can help me figure out what the problem is. Shout out some suggestions if you know. Oh, I can hear a lot of you making some great suggestions. Let's take a look. So in my container, I've got one, two, three pieces of fruit. Do you know what fruit it is? Shout it out if you know. Great suggestions everyone. It's a watermelon. So I've got three pieces of watermelon and Reggie has one. I have more pieces of watermelon than Reggie. I see what the problem is now. How can I make us have the same? What do you think? What do I need to do? I can hear a lot of you making some great suggestions. Let's take a look. I'm going to take one piece of watermelon from my container and put it into Reggie's container. There we are. Now we have two pieces each. Now we have the same amount. Great. Thank you for helping everyone. Now I need to look at how many chocolate treats I have. One piece of chocolate and Reggie has one, two, three. What do I need to do? Shout out your suggestions when you know. Great job, everyone. I can hear some great suggestions. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to take one piece of chocolate Reggie's container and put it into mine. There we are. Now we have the same. One, two pieces for me and two pieces for Reggie. Now we have the same amount. There we go. Well, for today's learning, we are going to be investigating quantities, using more and fewer. Here's what you need. You will need 15 small objects for counting and three containers to sort them into. You can also use a sheet that looks like this. Don't worry if you can't print the sheet up. That's absolutely fine. Three containers will do. So press pause to go and get those things and I'll see you in a bit when you're ready. Welcome back everyone. Now that you've got your sheet or your three containers and your 15 objects, you are ready for today's learning. Let's take a look at our star words. I am going to say them, and you can say them after me, are you ready? Here they are. More. Fewer. Greater than. Less than. Is equal to. and compare. Those are our star words for today. Now let's take a look at this picture. This picture is going to help us a lot with our learning today. Have a look at the picture and see what marks you can see. Take a look at the carriages. How many are there? How are they arranged? Shout out some suggestions when you know. I can hear some of you shouting out some great answers to the question that I asked. Let's take a look. So there are nine carriages. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. The carriages is arranged in rows. How many carriages in each row? Great job. There are three carriages in each row. There are three carriages vertically and horizontally. Well done everyone. Let's take a look at the number of wheels on each carriage. The wheels are the same. There are the same amount of wheels on each carriage. How many wheels are there on each carriage? I can hear some careful counting. Well done everyone. There are four wheels on each carriage. One. Two. Three. Four. There are four wheels on each carriage. Each carriage has the same amount of wheels. If there are four wheels on each carriage, how many wheels are there in each row? Do you think you can work it out? I'm sure you can. Maybe you can count the wheels in twos. Shout out the answer when you know. I can hear a lot of you doing some great counting. Think we can count them together? Let's have a go. We're going to count them in twos. Are you ready? Two. Four. Six. Eight. 10. 12. There are 12 wheels in each row. Great job everyone. Give yourselves two claps. Excellent. Now I've got some more questions to ask you about these carriages. Let's see if we can use some careful counting. Which carriage has the fewest amount of passengers? Which carriage has the fewest amount of passengers? Take a look. How can you figure out the answer to the question? Shout out some suggestions when you know. I can hear a lot of you trying to work out the answer. Let's take a look at this green carriage. How many passengers can you see? Great. There are two passengers in the green carriage. Now let's take a look. Is there any other carriage that has fewer amount of passengers in it? Is there another carriage that has less amounts of passengers in it? Take a look. Shout out the answer when you know. I can hear some great suggestions. Here we are. Let's take a look at this one. So here is a blue carriage and here is our passenger. How many passengers can you see? One. One passenger. One is fewer than two. One is fewer than two. Is there any other carriages that have fewer passengers than one? Shout out the answer when you know. No, there isn't. So here we are. Here's the answer. The blue carriage here has the fewest amount of passengers in it. Well done everyone. That was great. Now here's another question for you. Which carriage has the most amount of passengers? Which carriage has the most amount of passengers? Take a look. I'm going to give you a hint. It's in the bottom row. Do you think you can work it out? Press pause and count the passengers in each carriage in the bottom row. And work out the answer and I'll see you in a bit when you're ready. Welcome back everyone. Did you work out the answer? I'm sure you did. Let's see if we can count them together. Let's start with the grey one. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. The grey carriage has seven passengers. Let's see if I can put the right number there. There we are. Seven. Now let's take a look at this dark blue carriage. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. The dark blue carriage has eight passengers in it. And finally, let's take a look at the red one. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Nine passengers. The red carriage has nine passengers in it. So here we are, which one has the most amount of passengers? Great job. The red one. The red carriage has the most amount of passengers. And remember, the light blue one has the fewest. Well done everybody. Great job. Now it's your turn. You're going to help me solve a problem. You can use your three containers for this, or if you've got your sheet, you can use that instead. Now take a look. I've got three carriages here. I've got a green one, a red one and a grey one. I'm going to give you some clues to see if you can solve this problem. Are you ready? The red carriage has three fewer passengers than the green carriage. The green carriage has one more passenger than the grey carriage and the grey carriage has four passengers in it. Shall I repeat that? Let's do it again. The green carriage has one more passenger than the grey carriage. The grey carriage has four passengers in it. And the red carriage has three fewer passengers than the green one. Let's start with the grey one. So if the grey one has four passengers and the green carriage has one more passenger than the grey one, how many passengers does the green one have? I can hear a lot of you working out the answer. Great. Let's have a look and see if we can do it together. One. Two. Three. Four passengers in the grey carriage. Can you see if you can put four passengers in your carriage? Press pause to do that and then press play again when you're ready. Welcome back. Now you've got four passengers in your grey carriage. See if you can work out the next clue. The green carriage has one more passenger than the grey one. Press pause to put your passengers into the green carriage and then press play when you're ready. Welcome back everyone. Did you work it out? Did you work out how many passengers the green carriage has? Let's see if we can do it together. If the green carriage has one more passenger than the grey one, we need to do one more than four. Shout out the answer. What is one more than four? Great. Five. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Excellent. I'm sure you've got five passengers in your carriage as well. And the last clue to work out, the red carriage has three fewer passengers than the green one. Three fewer passengers than the green one. How many passengers are in the red carriage? Press pause to put the right amount in the red carriage and then press play when you're ready. Welcome back everyone. Did you work out how many passengers are in the red carriage? What is three fewer than five? Do you know? Shout out the answer to me. Excellent. Two. One. Two. Three fewer than five is two. You've done an amazing job at solving all these clues today everyone. Give yourselves a pat on the back. I am very impressed. Keep practising with fewer than and more than, and I'll see you again next time. Bye.

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In this lesson we will compare quantities using the words 'more' and 'fewer.'  At the end of the lesson you need to listen very carefully to the clues to work out how many passengers are in each carriage of the train.

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