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Counting Objects
Little learners can practice counting. Each slide presents a set of objects to be counted by the class. A finger points to each object as it is counted. This presentation is short, but developmentally sound.
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How Many Ways Can You Count?
Youngsters chorally count to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s, and backwards from 20, using chip markers and a hundreds chart. Includes a printable chart and a teacher checklist for assessing mastery.
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Whole Number Sense
Students find the shapes that are asked of them out of a bunch of shapes. In this shapes lesson plan, students find a specific number of a specific shape with a specific size and color.
Print and Practice
Read and Draw Shapes to Number 10
In this read and draw instructional activity, learners read a number at the beginning of a row, then draw that many of the shapes given, circles or triangles. Numbers 1-10 are used.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Students count to five. They use two blindfolds and a bean bag. One child is blindfolded. The other children sit close together in a circle on the floor.
Spin the blindfolded person around three times, then release. The children clap...
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Easter Counting
In this Easter counting learning exercise, students count Easter baskets, then circle the number counted. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Math: Musical Patterns
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
Illustrative Mathematics
Making a Clock
Have a fun time teaching children to read analog clocks with this whole-group math activity. Using large sets of the numerals 1-12 and 0, 5, 10...55, the teacher creates a large clock on either the carpet or the white board, explaining...
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Agriculture Counts
Students practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Students practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Adding More
Use this attractive worksheet to help your class practice basic addition skills. Learners answer six questions in which they add on to an amount shown.
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Counting Tools
As the title states, the activity required to complete this worksheet is counting tools! Saws, screwdrivers, and wrenches are depicted for children to count. They simply write the number of items on a line to the right of each group....
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Learning 6 - Write the Word
Which plate has six cookies? Focus on the number six with novice counters as they solidify single-digit number concepts. Keep in mind pre-readers may have trouble with this, as there are written instructions they will need to understand....
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Counting Cards With Pictures
In this math counting worksheet, students color and count the numbers from 1 to 5. Students see a large number, and a corresponding picture to color.
Georgia Learning Connections
Stand By Me!
Get your little mathematicians moving with this experiential activity in which one child is the "tens" and another is the "ones." They collect the number of unifix cubes (in tens or singles) assigned to their respective place values and...
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My Test Book: Most and Least
In this counting skills instructional activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding most and least. Students may view the correct answers
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Counting Skills: Dogs
In this counting 1-5 practice worksheet, students examine 4 sets of pictured dogs, count each set, and record their answers in the space provided.
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Fun Counting Worksheet
In this counting 1-15 practice learning exercise, students examine 4 sets of pictured items, count each set, and record their answers in the space provided.
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My Test Book: Counting Practice
In this math skills instructional activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that require them to count the picture objects. Students may view the correct answers.
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Seaweed Soup
Students read the book Seaweed Soup and learn about matching. In this matching lesson plan, students read the given book, and have to keep track of all the different bowls, cups, spoons, and napkins on the table by matching them up.
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50 State Quarter Game
Students, using their knowledge of place value and number sense, play this counting game in small groups, or as a whole class, to see who be the first person to reach 50 cents.
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Yummy Apples!
Learners discuss apples and how they are grown. They listen as the teacher reads "Apples," by Gail Gibbons. Students discuss the story. They view several different types of apples and compare their characteristics. Learners taste several...
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Counting on the Farm
Hee-haw! Preschool or kindergarten math pupils identify and count different objects in a lively farm landscape. Beneath the picture, each animal or plant is represented pictorially, and little ones simply write the total count for each....
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Tens and Ones
Here is a decent presentation for very young mathematicians on place value. The tens and ones column are covered. This PowerPoint would be useful as a starter. After viewing this, I would break out the manipulatives and let kids use...
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Objects Vibrate
Students strike a tuning fork and dip it in water. They sprinkle cereal flakes on a drum, than tap the top of the drum. Students stretch a rubber band between two fingers and pluck it; stretch the elastic farther and pluck it again. Then...