Right or wrong?

💡 How it plays and why it helps

Children love catching a mistake that is not their own. Right or wrong? lets a Kindergarten child judge an answer instead of giving one. Sami, Tom, Leo or Milo has a few carrots, strawberries, butterflies, balls or ducks, puts some in a box and the rest in a bag. Then someone says how many are in the bag. Your child taps one of four sentences: right, wrong because there are fewer, wrong because there are more, or we cannot know. Five stories make a round, read aloud, and every answer is checked and explained: 5 is 3 and 2.

Part-whole thinking sits underneath. A number splits into two parts, and knowing one part tells you the other. Judging a claim asks your child to hold the whole, the part and the claim at once.

Some claims repeat the starting number, as if nothing went in the box. A child who heard 5 twice may tap "That is right." Ask, "Where did the 3 in the box go?" Praise the checking: "You did not just believe it."