Mfp1501 Assignment 3

2. Additive composition {Ans: This is the phase, where children recognise that counting is a permanent indicator or quantity. They understand that a quantity can be rearranged or counted in different ways while remaining the same, and they can make connections with skip counting rather than counting in ones. However they may still need to lay items in the groups out before they skip count or repeatedly add to find out how many. They don't yet understand that groups themselves can be counted. They understand multiplication as repeated addition, but they don't recognise the inverse relationship For example: children struggle to make sense of questions such as: How many groups can you count 12 in threes? They can perform the skip counting in threes to 12, but can't keep track of the number of groups of 3. Their focus is on the multiplicand(size of the group) and they do not understand the role of the multiplier(number of groups) *Children in this phase need activities to help them recognise the number in each group,the number of groups and the total in multiplicative situations. They need to be able to describe multiplicative situations,for example in arrays, in terms of the number