Part Whole Understanding

Part Whole Mats: Building Relational Understanding

Understanding what represents the parts and the whole is foundational in building relational understanding between numbers and the inverse operations of addition and subtraction.

• Using Part-Whole Thinking in Math Article - Great article on importance of Part-Whole thinking.
• Part Whole Mat: Two Small Squares and One Large Rectangle.
• Part Whole Mats (Different designs. Can use small post it notes to write the “whole amount”. Show parts with concrete objects or drawing . Put these in plastic sleeves for easy use!