Allow youngsters to glimpse one of the diagrams below:<br />
<br />

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center"><img src="cupboardlove1/diagram1.gif" alt=
"digram of interlocking squares" width="200" height="141" /></div>
</td>
<td>
<div align="center"><img src="cupboardlove1/diagram2.gif" alt=
"diagram of triangles within a triangle" width="200" height=
"149" /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Hide the diagram ...</p>
<p>Then invite them to close their eyes and imagine the diagram,
talk and answer the questions posed. Garner responses then show the
diagram again and get them to COUNT this time.</p>