This number matching puzzle activity has preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade children count ten-frame pictures and match them to numbers 1 to 10. An answer key is included for quick checking.
A printable dominoes activity for preschool to 3rd grade: 28 domino cards, two counting and addition games, a recording sheet and a practice page. Answer key included for quick checking.
Kids put color-coded number strips and tens cards in order with this I Can Count to 100 activity for kindergarten to 2nd grade. A practice page and answer key are included for quick checking.
Using More Fewer Activity, studentscompare sets of more and less and feed your hippo to build their number sense skills.
Using Numbers Activity, students practice counting and number identification with the Old McDonald Clip Cardactivity in order to build their counting fluency.
This number matching activity helps preschool to 1st grade children count ten-frame pictures and match them to the numbers 1 to 10. A practice page and answer key are included.
This compose and decompose numbers 11-19 activity has kindergarten and 1st grade children build teen numbers as ten and ones with ten-frames, counters and matching cards. Answer key included.
This ordinal numbers racecar activity is a spin-and-park race game for kindergarten to 3rd grade that practices first through eighth. A practice page and answer key are included.
This decomposing a ten frame activity helps kindergarten to 2nd grade students match ten frames to facts that make 10, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using this Counting Dice Activity, students practice counting to 100 by rolling a die to move to the finish line!
Count and match gumball jars in this gumball jar counting activity for PreK to 1st grade. Children match jars of 1 to 15 gumballs to numbers, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included.
Using this Take Me Out to the Ballgame Inequalities Activity, students compare two sets of dots by using inequality symbols to build comparison skills.
This counting leaves number sequence activity lets kindergarten and 1st grade kids find missing numbers to 100 with fall leaf cards. Answer key included.
This counting on to 120 activity has kids pick a lily pad card, count on five more on a 120 chart and write the numbers. For kindergarten-1st grade with an answer key included.
In this count and write 0-20 activity, Preschool to 1st Grade children count dots on ten-frames and write each number, with an answer key included.
Using Count Back Activity, students count back from one number to another number to solve the subtraction equations.
Using One to One Correspondence Counting Numbers Activity, students count the objects on each card and pair each object card with the matching number name card.
This crayon number matching activity has preschool and kindergarten children count crayons from 1 to 12 and match each set to a numbered crayon box, with an answer key included for easy checking.
This missing number activity has K-2nd grade students find the missing number on 24 cookie cards by counting by 1s and 10s on a hundred chart. Answer key included, and it makes counting feel like a treat.
This Deep Sea Diving numbers recognition activity has PreK-1st grade students count sea animals in ten frames around the room, with recording sheets, a practice page and answer key included.
One, two, three... let's count!
Kindergarten counting is so much more than reciting numbers. Kids learn to count to 100 by ones and tens, count forward from any number ("start at 7: 8, 9, 10!"), and count a group of up to 20 objects while touching each one just once. The big idea is that the last number you say tells how many are in the group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 5 apples! They also learn that each number is one more than the one before. When a child stops recounting a pile from the start and just says "that's 6," counting has clicked.
Little hands, big numbers. These moves keep counting active, musical and meaningful.
Counting songs are the easiest daily practice there is. Play one during transitions and have kids hold up fingers or march on each number. The rhythm locks the order in, and the songs get requested again and again.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withCounting By Ones Song (Original Music Video)SongsOpen it →Give each child a cup of counters and a mat. They slide one counter across the line for every number they say, then announce the total. Moving objects stops the classic mistake of saying numbers faster than you point.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withCount to 20 Objects WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Once a week, pull kids for a 2-minute check: count as high as you can, count on from 14, count this pile. Jot where each child stops. Then you know exactly who needs teen numbers and who's ready for 100.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCounting to 100 Assessment WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Kindergarteners will count anything. Here are our favorite ways to let them.
ActivitiesKids match a numeral to the piece showing that many dots or objects. It's a center they can do all by themselves.
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WorksheetsCount toys on the page, then raid the real toy bin and count again. Stuffed animals make the best counting buddies!
Open Toy Counting 1-5 Worksheet →
WorksheetsColor the hundred chart a row at a time and count by tens out loud when each row is done.
Open I Can Count to 100 Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Number Matching Puzzle Activity, Printable Dominoes and I Can Count to 100 Activity.
By the end of kindergarten, children are expected to count to 100 by ones and by tens. They should also be able to count a group of up to 20 objects and tell how many there are.
It's very common! Young kids often say numbers faster than they point. Have them move each object to a new spot as they count it, so every object gets exactly one number.
Counting on means starting from a number other than 1, like "start at 6 and keep going." It shows a child understands the number sequence, and it sets up adding later in the year.
Show teens as "ten and some more": 14 is a full ten frame and 4 extra. Kids often mix up 13 and 30 or say "eleventeen," so a little daily practice with ten frames helps a lot.
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