Look at this giant + sign! You have seen it before, maybe in a book or on the board. Where have you seen it? What do you think it tells us to do?
The + sign is the joining sign. It says and (or plus). A plus story is two numbers with a + between them. Here are three plus stories on the ten-frame: 3 + 2 means three and two more, in two colours on one frame.
Now build the plus stories with your own hands. Make the first number in one colour and the second number in the other colour. Then join them together, because that is what the + sign does.
We will build 2 + 3, then 4 + 2, then 6 + 3, then 5 + 4. Hold up each one and read it out loud: ___ plus ___.
Build the plus story
Watch the board first: we cross two straight arms to make a clean +. Then, in your maths copy, write 3 + 2 and 4 + 1, forming the + sign carefully.
- 3 + 2
- 4 + 1
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