Be the announcer for a pretend score of 28 marks. A helper makes two checked ten-strips and eight loose marks; this is a supplied model, not a real game score.
- Ask to inspect one strip: count or direct pointing through its ten cells and marks before naming it a full ten.
- Give your commentary: how many strip pieces are on the table, and how many marks do those full strips represent?
- Ask the helper to point to the loose marks separately. Explain how strip value and loose ones account for the stated whole.
- Pretend another announcer counts paper pieces instead of represented marks. Tell or show what they need to inspect before reporting the score. No live game or performance is required.
Point, speak, sign, use AAC or tell a helper where to put the marks. A quiet private try or pause is fine. No photo, returned homework, purchase or independent drawing/moving is needed.
Grown-up help
**Retained ordinary model.** 20 + 8 = 28. Give a model only when useful after the child's first thinking; it is not an independently found response. **Director route.** Follow the child's words/signs/AAC choices faithfully; neutral reading and physical operation are different from a maths hint. Use a smaller honest actual amount or pause privately if needed. Below-ten practice cannot establish a full-ten exchange. A narrated proposed move is not an observed physical move. [Full daily plan](../teacher/day-44.md) gives today's exact reasoning and next instruction. This is an ordinary practice model, not a reserved fresh answer. If the total is too large, choose and label a smaller actual collection while keeping the partition purpose. Adult movement follows the child's decisions. Supplied counts are support, not evidence of independently finding that count. If a child says five for three strips plus two, open one strip, touch its ten marks and label the object value. Then use a new two-strip model before returning to three strips.Original SubjectNest teaching and drawings © NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd 2026, CC BY 4.0. Credit SubjectNest by NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd, version 0.1.0, source and licence; note changes. Curriculum and provider rights remain separate.