Your child will probably recognise the Numberblocks characters without needing to count ... is the basis for how ‘sums’ such as 2 + 3 = 5 work. The equation is correct because there is 5 ...

We get them to collect around 5 of each colour to begin with ... and ask them to investigate how many different Numberblocks characters they can use to make Ten. Just leave all the characters out in ...