Moon night
for grown-ups
What's going on
Three flashes on a bright moonlit sky:
- Twelve, as two mirrored sixes. Kea sees six and six. Rock sees four lines of three.
- Ten, in clumps of four, four and two. Kea sees four, four, two. Rock sees two squares making eight, and two. The Duck sees five pairs.
- Seven, scattered with no pattern. Kea says eight, then seven: "I had to count." Rock finds a three and a four.
The maths: doubles (6 + 6), three ways to make ten, and what to do when there's no pattern to see.
These are the pictures in the first play. On a replay each flash is a different number in the same kind of shape, with the stars in new places.
What kids usually do
- Count the scatter, and feel they did it wrong. They didn't. Counting is a real method, and Kea counted too. Rock's "a three and a four" shows you can make your own groups when the sky gives you none.
- Try to see it Rock's way, and say "not yet". That's an honest answer, and it's on the screen for a reason.
- Like the Duck's pairs best, because pairs are easy to be sure of.
At dinner
Ask someone at home to flash some fingers at you, quick. How did you see them?
Then try ten fingers. Five and five? Or something else?
The round celebrates the ways of seeing, never the speed or the right number. This card tells you what's in the sky, so you can play along.
