"SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD:
CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY"
NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, JULY 2019
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3. Big numbers/ count in steps The next stage is to count in steps of (in approximate
order of difficulty) ten, five, two, a hundred, three, a thousand etc. This helps students move
towards being able to use numbers in English without counting from ―one‖ every time and
without translating. Possible problems at this stage include the difference in pronunciation
between 15 and 50, the positioning and meaning of commas with big numbers, and the use of
―and‖ in ―a hundred and five‖ in British English. The simplest game for counting in
stages
is just
to challenge each other to count quickly without making a mistake, with a ball to throw adding
fun and speeding things up. If you don‘t use a ball you can add gestures that students use to say
the person next to them should give the next number in the sequence, the next person should be
skipped, the direction of the counting should change etc, similar to drinking games.
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