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One of the ways that we teach 1st graders how to collect similar names to the same number. The purpose is to teach them that numbers can be expressed in many different ways! It looks like an open box with a tag attached.

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Here is one example of a name collection box where the number was 6. As you can see, this student (Halle) wrote 6 in as many ways as she could think of to express the different ways it can be written.

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Here is another example of a name collection box but where the number was 9. This student's name is Margaret.

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For the activities to practice using the name collection boxes, the children paired up and traveled to different tables where they had a different number so that they could practice a variety of numbers. Which is where their worksheets came from.

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Part of the first grade mathematics curriculum is learning how to label numbers into different categories and understanding the many ways to express a specific number.

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https://web.seesaw.me

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/2nd-grade/student-gallery/name-collection-boxes.html