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title: "Reception - Counting sets and Cardinality"
url: "https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2024-05-09-reception-counting-sets-and-cardinality"
school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy"
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# Reception - Counting sets and Cardinality

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/A6B04F36-EF13-4080-B29E-0A66781D071B.jpeg)   9 May 2024

Reception have been looking at Cardinality - counting the number of objects in a large set. They have been thinking carefully about ‘counting rules’ to help them to count accurately, such as counting one at a time, saying numbers in the right order, moving objects into a line and saying the stopping number.

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