Mission 35: Food for thought Ideas • Practise sharing things, perhaps with a pretend restaurant for toys. Play with giving them a chair each, and a plate each. Share out items of food between them, sometimes giving everyone one thing each, sometimes giving them more than one. • Use meal times as an opportunity to ‘deal things out’ one each, two each and so on, with plates, glasses, knives and forks, items of food. • Explore grouping using the Counter Machine. Use the magnets to group counters in 2s. How many groups of 2 can you make with 2 counters, 4 counters, 6 counters, 10 counters? Are there some numbers of counters that won’t exactly group in 2s? What about grouping in 5s? • Try making different groups with the Multiplier. Use a target number - can you guess how many groups of 2 it will need to make the target?    Agents help run a restaurant. They work out how many chairs and tables are needed by different numbers of customers, and appropriate food to match customers’ orders. Focus: This mission focuses on problem solving, including one to one correspondence where one thing is matched with another (e.g. matching chairs to customers) and many to one correspondence (e.g. 2 customers to each table). Vocabulary: each, twice as many, how many for, more than