Let's Count! (Teachers' Page)

Let's count to five! Read your primaries, Ten Black Dots, by Donald Crews while taking the time to count the dots on each page. Also count the number of days on a calendar. As guided practice, have your class count parts of their bodies,...

First graders count objects by 10s into cups. Once the group has reached 100, they count by 1s to 130. During the second part of the activity, they skip count from 100 by 2s. Objective is to start at any number in the sequence, but no...

Although there isn't much to this counting lesson, there are some solid resources and practice ideas here for beginners. Hook youngsters by challenging them to count the number of days on the calendar up to today. Use the calendar for...

Counting is the theme of this compilation of ESL lessons. Through listening, speaking, and moving, your young learners take part in a variety of activities to enhance their English proficiency such as making menus and books,...

Your wee mathematicians place a counting cube on each pictured fish and move the cubes to a ten-frame in the aquarium at the top of the page. Then they count on the extras and write the total number. Three practice opportunities in all.

Learners practice skip counting. In this skip counting lesson, students count by 10's up to 50. They watch a demonstration and then work in a small group on a hands-on cutting activity to practice this skill. The lesson contains an...

Counting by tens out loud, flip charts, and blocks, sounds like a perfect 1st grade lesson. The class practices counting by tens using blocks, they add ten blocks at a time and use a flip digit chart to aid in numerical recognition. The...

Primary graders explore, examine, and hypothesize how many seeds are in a small apple. Then they pry the seeds from their cut apple to count and verify their hypotheses. They listen to a reading of the book Ten Little Apple Seeds by...

Bean counters connect cubes to compose and decompose the number 20. They use sticks with beans glued onto them to model and make bundles of 100. Terrific teacher tips, printable handouts, and plenty of other resources make this...

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...