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How Many Spots are on Each Ladybug?
The ever popular ladybug serves as a excellent tool for developing the number sense of young mathematicians on this math instructional activity. Presented with a series of colorful pictures, children practice counting and writing the...
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Fishbowl Counting
Young mathematicians demonstrate their understanding of cardinality with this simple math worksheet. Given a series of ten empty fishbowls, learners are asked to draw in the number of fish indicated on each bowl.
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How Many?
Working with numbers 1-10, beginning counters complete five exercises to help them hone their skills. They examine two sets of sports balls, circling the ones at various number positions. Next, they count a set of ladybugs, recording the...
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How Many in My Home?
Engage young mathematicians in practicing their counting skills while learning a little about the home environment of your students with this simple worksheet. By asking students to determine the number of windows, doors, rooms, people,...
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Choral Counting I
Using a 100s chart or a number line with a pointer, work with your class to count up to 100 by ones and tens. As a part of daily instruction, prompt your kindergartners to chant count from 1 to 30. Move on to 1 to 50, and then from 1 to...
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Counting by Tens
With this daily counting activity, your kindergartners will master counting in sequence automatically from 0 to 100, and will count in multiples of ten to 100. With the whole class, count to 100. With each number, learners will whisper...
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Counting Circles
Here is another learning game that will engage your kindergartners and support them with their counting fluency. Forming a circle where everyone faces inward, choose a counting sequence (counting frontward or backward) with no more than...
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Counting the Puppies
Kindergarten counters will be pleased to play with plump puppies and respond to seven prompts about these pets. The worksheet includes five counting questions, one addition question, and one subtraction question. The playful puppies are...
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Sort and Count II
Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this hands-on sorting activity. Given a bag of objects, learners work independently sorting the items based on their physical attributes, counting to determine the size of each group....
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How Many?
Establish 1:1 correspondence by counting students, first one gender, then the other. Give each child a colored cube (one color for boys, another for girls) and have small groups determine more or less and how many all together. As a...
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Let's Count! (Teachers' Page)
Learners practice counting using a website "Let's Count". They point to each object and count and pull down a tab to check their answers.
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Counting Two and Three More Worksheet
How many moons? Mathematicians count the moons to determine how many they would have if there were two more. Then, they record the number if there were three more. They complete two more similar problems. These are great for kids to...
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Penguin Man
These penguins are hungry and it's the job of your young mathematicians to feed them. Each of these large penguin templates has a number printed on it corresponding with the number of goldfish crackers students need to place on it. This...
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Count and Color Kittens
Young counters respond to three prompts and demonstrate their understanding of ordinal numbers by identifying the first, middle, and last kitten held in a young girl’s sack. After counting the total number of little, furry felines,...
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Start-Stop Counting
Similar to the game duck, duck, goose, assemble your class in a circle. Choose a number range (within ten numbers) begin walking around the circle counting and select a child by tapping her. The child then picks up the counting sequence...
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Pick a Number, Counting On
This is a quick learning game that can be played on a daily basis during transitions or as a part of the morning meeting. Using number cards or numbers placed on sticks, pick a number at random. Read the number to the class and then ask...
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Counting the Kittens
Kindergarten counters count kittens and respond to seven counting questions. Whether grey or white, the frisky felines are having a ball playing with the yarn. Answer sheet is included.
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How Many Ducks in the Pond?
Kindergarten counters will be delighted to doddle with the ducks pictured on a two-page illustrated worksheet. The six story problems and two equations ask learners to add and subtract as the ducklings dabble in the pond. An answer...
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Position Within a Set
Your students will have no problem relating to this word problem involving a toy car race: there are three cars, and they come in first, second, and third place in a race down the driveway. Learners analyze the data by writing the...
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Skip Counting By Hundreds
There are 6 different number sequences for learners to complete. Each contains missing number. They skip count by hundreds to determine which number will best fill in the blank.
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Circle the Correct Amount Worksheet
Even though each of these sets of images has a number below it, the two may not match up! The challenge is to circle the number of objects matching the numeral in each box. Kids can either circle individual objects or draw a large circle...
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The Napping House
How many people and animals can cram into a single bed? Find out with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. Following along with a reading of the children's book The Napping House by Audrey Wood, young mathematicians add...
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Wheels All Around
Budding mathematicians explore the concept of skip counting. They practice skip counting as they use it to determine the number of wheels that come to school at 3 different times throughout the day. They also create a data graph to show...
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Goody Bags
Looking for Common Core math center ideas for your Kindergartners? This a great one that is easy to set up, change up, and can be individualized to the learning level of each child. Start with a collection of zippered plastic bags and...