Practical ideas: Building towers

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Build a tower

You need up to 20 bricks, multilink or lego pieces.

Count them together.

Join them to make a tower. Count up in ones as you go.

Will the tower stand up each time you add one?

Take the tower apart, counting down one brick at a time.

At each stage ask, ‘How many bricks are there in the tower?’

Taller tower

You need about 30 bricks, multilink or lego pieces.

Build a tower each, but not the same height.

Ask questions such as:

Which tower is taller? How many bricks in the taller tower?

How many bricks has the short tower?

Can I take some from the taller tower to make both the same height?

Take one brick off a tower at a time and count down.

Build up again two at a time, counting on in twos.