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ESL Kid Stuff

Numbers 1-20

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Language learners engage in a series of games and activities designed to help them recognize and name the numbers from ten to twenty.
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Curated OER

Counting in Kindergarten: Make Number Books

For Teachers K
Emergent math masters practice 1:1 correspondence, number recognition, and quantity-to-number relationships. They view number flashcards, state the correct number name, and circle the corresponding numeral to represent the number of...
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Curated OER

Estimate How Many Seeds Are In a Fruit or Vegetable

For Teachers K - 4th
Help mathematicians estimate how many seeds are in a given vegetable or fruit. They are divided into pairs and estimate the amount of seeds in a whole fruit without seeing the inside. They then cut the fruit or vegetable in half and...
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Curated OER

Goody Bags

For Teachers K Standards
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...
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Curated OER

Primary Counting Skills

For Teachers K - 1st
Class members drill and practice counting skills from 1 to 20. They count along with a puppet and when the puppet makes a mistake, they correct it. In pairs, they connect cubes to make a train and count the number used. On the last of...
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Curated OER

Gummy Candy Count

For Teachers K
Use the book, The Gummy Candy Counting Book, to practice counting up to ten objects in a group. This lesson nicely-combines language arts and math in a way that should lead to effective teaching.
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Curated OER

We're Counting At The Zoo!

For Teachers K
Budding mathematicians use sets of concrete materials to represent, count, and match quantities to 10 or more given in verbal or written form while participating in hands-on activities. This lesson uses the book 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo.
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PBS

Button, Button

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Youngsters count, classify, and estimate quantities using buttons after a read aloud of The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid. They discuss the difference between guessing and estimating. Based on an experiment, they predict the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Teen Go Fish

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Kindergartners play the classic game Go Fish as they practice identifying numbers in the teens. A fun and engaging activity that develops number recognition skills in young learners. As added support, provide cards that include both the...
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Curated OER

How Many?

For Teachers K
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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Curated OER

Fish Count

For Teachers K
Students participate in hands-on activities in which they count and match objects to 10 or more using one-to-one correspondence and make a record of objects counted, which be kept in a math portfolio.
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Mixing in Math

Take Ten: Make Cleaning Up More Fun with Predictions and Counting

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Class members predict and count how many items need to be cleaned up in class while skip counting by 10s. They estimate whether having each child clean up 10 items will be enough to get the room ready for the next day. Everyone counts...
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Curated OER

Comparing Numbers to 20

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this Study Buddies math worksheet, pupils work with a partner to count dots in six boxes. They circle ten of the dots and count the number that are leftover before writing the number on the line below the dots. There are complete...
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Primary National Strategy

Ordering and Counting

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Are you in need of a 5-day unit intended to teach little learners how to count to 20? This is a well-structured complete set of lessons which employ a variety of methods to instruct learners about various ways to count from 1 to 20. They...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Thinking About Numbers from 1 to 20

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help your kindergarteners discover new number-sense concepts and to compose and decompose numbers. Though the resource contains no procedural details, the assessment tool (which you can find in the "printer friendly version") has...
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Curated OER

Object Graphs

For Teachers K
Students identify geometric shapes, demonstrate construction of an object graph, compare sets of objects, estimate which student has the most geometric shapes in his or her bag, and play computer game Jump Start Kindergarten.
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Curated OER

Counting Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this counting to ten worksheet, students examine a picture of different animals. Students count each of the 7 kinds of animals and record the totals. All totals will be under ten.
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Curated OER

M&M Counting Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students count up to 10 or more M & Ms using verbal names and one-to-one correspondence, as well as use sets of M & Ms to represent quantities given in verbal form.
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Perkins School for the Blind

Counting Cups

For Teachers K - 6th
Teach one-to-one correspondence, fine motor, and counting skills to your learners with visual disabilities. Included are a set of activity suggestions, which are useful when teaching a variety of different early math skills. Braille,...
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WakeGOV

Plastic Sight Words

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...
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Curated OER

Number Line Snacks: Compare Numbers to 10

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners put Cheerios or cheddar fish on two number lines (up to 10 each) and identify which number the snack pieces indicate. They compare numbers after eating a few of each snack, and get an introduction to addition and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Wheels All Around

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
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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Curated OER

100 Balls

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform locomotor skills such as throwing balls while counting up to 100. In this 100th day of school physical education lesson, the students play a Hungry, Hungry Hippos game to perform the throwing technique. There are several...
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Curated OER

100th Day of School Collections

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Celebrate the 100th day of school with a few great 100 themed stories and classroom activities. The books Benny's Pennies and 100th Day Worries are suggested for reading, making 10 piles of 10 objects is encouraged, and 5 extra lesson...