Counting Games: Numbers Are Everywhere You Look
Look around your room right now. How many windows do you see? How many shoes are on your feet? Numbers are hiding everywhere, and today you get to be a number detective!
What You'll Learn
- Count objects from 1 to 20 without skipping any - Match a number word to the right amount of things - Find groups of numbers hiding in your house - Play a counting game with a friend or grown-up
Counting One By One
When we count, we touch or point to one thing at a time and say one number. If you have 5 crayons, you touch the first one and say "1," touch the next and say "2," all the way to "5." The last number you say is how many crayons there are in total!
The most common counting mistake is going too fast and skipping an object. Try tapping each item gently as you say its number out loud.
Groups of Ten
Once you can count to 10, something cool happens: you just keep going! 11 is "ten and one more," 12 is "ten and two more." Try counting your fingers and toes together - that's 20!
Numbers Hide in Everyday Life
A pizza might be cut into 8 slices. A week has 7 days. A spider has 8 legs. Numbers are not just on paper - they describe the real world all around you.
Match each number word to the correct amount of dots.
Terms
Definitions
Drag terms onto their definitions, or click a term then click a definition to match.
If you count 6 apples one by one and the last number you say is 6, how many apples are there?
Which of these is the correct way to count 4 blocks?
Number Hunt
Walk around one room in your house with a grown-up. Find 5 different things you can count (like chairs, books, or socks). For each one, count it out loud and write or draw the number next to a picture of that item. Share your counting list with a family member.
Long ago, people counted using pebbles, knots in rope, or notches cut into sticks and bones before number symbols like 1, 2, 3 were invented!
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