Are there more cars on the left or on the right?

How do you know?

What were you paying attention to?

What might make it hard to compare?

K, 1, 2

Seeing mathematics in the world

Connecting number and quantity

Comparing quantities

Equal means the same

Composing and decomposing number

After the class has discussed the questions above, you can extend this activity by posing the following questions:

Provide students with copies of the pdf of this task: Add more cars to both sides of the image so the number of cars on both sides is equal.

How many cars did you add to each side?

What other ways could you make the number of cars equal?