Using the Counting Songs (Classic Video Collection), students practice skip counting by all of the numbers by singing and counting along to these thirteen videos.
Using the Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 4s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Threes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 3s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Sixes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 6s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Twos Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 2s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Tens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 10s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Ones Song (Original Music Video), students practice counting by 1s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Nines Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 9s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting Down From Twenty Song (Original Music Video), students practice counting down from 20 by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Eights Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 8s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Elevens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 11s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Twelves Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 12s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Sevens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 7s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using Counting Groups of 10 Activity, students use the ten frames to count by ten all the way to 120 to build number sense.
Using the Counting By Fives Song (MP3), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging song!
Using the Counting By Sevens Song (MP3), students practice skip counting by 7s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging song!
The Memorial Day Graphing Worksheet has 3rd Grade students skip count by twos, color a scaled bar graph, and answer four questions about it, with a full answer key so checking the work takes a minute.
Using the Counting By Twos Song (MP3), students practice skip counting by 2s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging song!
This candy hearts skip counting activity has 1st to 3rd grade students put heart number cards in order by 2s, 5s and 10s, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included for easy checking.
Count by leaps, multiply like a pro
In 3rd grade, skip counting becomes the doorway to multiplication. Kids move past 2s, 5s and 10s to count by 3s, 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s, and they start to see each list as a set of multiples. Counting 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 is really 5 × 4 = 20. They use skip counting to solve equal groups, arrays and early division too: "How many 3s make 18?" The click moment comes when a child stops counting from zero and just knows that the sixth jump of 7 lands on 42.
Skip counting is all about rhythm and patterns. These moves help 3rd graders turn those patterns into fast, confident multiplication facts.
Threes, sixes, sevens and eights are where kids stall, so we give them a tune. Play the Counting By Threes song twice, then pause it and let the class sing the next multiple on their own. Melody carries the number list long after the song ends.
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 Threes Song (Original Music Video)SongsOpen it →Before any chanting, kids build groups with counters: four piles of 6, then count them by 6s. Then they draw the groups and write 6, 12, 18, 24 under each one. Seeing the jumps as real groups is what connects skip counting to multiplying.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withCounting Groups of 10 ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Pick a "number of the week" and skip count it at morning meeting, in line and before recess. Monday it is 4s, next week 6s. A minute a day, all year long, builds the multiples kids need for multiplication and division.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCandy Hearts Skip Counting ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Get bodies moving and voices going. Skip counting loves a beat!
VideosCount from 1 to 40 out loud, but stomp instead of saying every multiple of 4. Then switch to 6s!
Open Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video) →
SongsColor every multiple of 9 on a hundred chart and look for the diagonal pattern that pops out.
Open Counting By Nines Song (Original Music Video) →
VideosSplit the class in half and take turns singing the next multiple of 6. Miss one and the other side scores!
Open Counting By Sixes Song (Original Music Video) →Teacher favorites right now: Counting Songs (Classic Video Collection), Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video) and Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video).
By the end of 3rd grade, most kids should skip count by every number from 2 to 10, at least up to the tenth multiple. Those lists are the multiplication facts they need to know by heart.
Each skip count is a running total of equal groups. Counting 3, 6, 9, 12 shows that 4 groups of 3 is 12, so kids can find any fact by counting jumps until they memorize it.
Count stairs by 2s, coins by 5s and 10s, or toss a ball back and forth saying the next multiple. Counting songs in the car are a great way to practice the harder numbers too.
Totally normal in 3rd grade. Keep practicing a few minutes a day, and encourage them to start from a fact they know, like 5 × 6 = 30, then add one more 6 to get 36.
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