How many Children fit on our mat?

 We found we could fit 14  children lying down on our mat close to one another.

We tried hard to lie close to one another to avoid gaps!

We have 23 children in our room - so we know 14 is alot smaller than 23....so we could not fit our whole class on the mat lying down at one time.

So we had to get the rest of the children to lie on our 2nd mat.....but then we had a big space left!


How many children  did we need to borrow to fill up the 2nd mat.
We had 9 on the 2nd mat.....
How much smaller is 9 than 14?
Hugh said "We can work that out by saying 9 and how many more make 14?
WE used a number line to work out that the difference is 5 less.

Clever Gyle said..."We would have to have 28 children in our class to fill up the space on both of our mats....because I know that 14+14=28"