Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
You may also like to:
- Look at a Chinese 'abacus' and see how it differs from a Japanese or Russian one. Learn how to use one.
- Find other appropriate ways of describing Little Ming and Little Fung.
- Work out my age!
- Make lists of comparatives and superlatives - e.g. old, older, oldest tall, taller, tallest bright faint great bad many good beautiful much well ill"
Cubes. Tangram. Visualising. Working systematically. Practical Activity. Generalising. Games. Interactivities. Investigations. Compound transformations.
Published December 1999.
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