Ms Sonali, a class I mathematics teacher gives the following activities to her learners-
(i) Sorting shells, stones, tokens of different size and colour
(ii) Arranging different sticks in a bundle according to their lengths
(ii) Collecting sticks, feathers, leaves from their surroundings and tie them in groups
(iv) Threading the beads to form a garland for counting
These type of activities are
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done in primary classes for leisure
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a waste of time as teacher should focus on solving problems given in textbook
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only done in pre-primary hence an irrelevant activity in class I.
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Useful for assessing children’s readiness to introduce important concepts like numbers, counting in arithmetic.