Understanding the Standard (For Teachers)
• Counting skills are essential components of the development of number ideas; however, they are only one of the indicators of the understanding of numbers.
• Counting forward by rote advances the child’s development of sequencing. The natural numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4.... The whole numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.... Students should count the whole numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,....
• Counting backward by rote lays the foundation for subtraction. Students should count backward beginning with 10, 9, 8,... through ...3, 2, 1, 0.
• Counting forward and backward leads to the development of counting on and counting back.
• The patterns developed as a result of skip counting are precursors for recognizing numeric patterns, functional relationships, and concepts underlying money, time telling, and multiplication. Powerful models for developing these concepts include, but are not limited to, counters, hundred chart, and calculators.
• Skip counting by fives lays the foundation for reading a clock effectively and telling time to the nearest five minutes, counting money, and developing the multiplication facts for five.
• Skip counting by tens is a precursor for use of place value, addition, counting money, and multiplying by multiples of 10.
• Calculators can be used to display the numeric patterns that result from skip counting.
All students should
Books:
The Night Before the 100th Day of School. By Natasha Wing. Illus by Mindy Pierce. 2005. 32p. Grosset & Dunlap. (978-0448439235) Gr. K. It's the night before the 100th day of school, and students are supposed to bring in one hundred of something for show and tell the next day. One student just can't find anything. What do you think he's going to do?
One Hundred Angry Ants. By Elinor Pinsces. Illus by Bonnie MacKain. 1999. 32p. Sandpiper. (978-0395971239) Gr PreK-K. Using rhyme, students watch as one hundred ants march to a picnic. Marching one by one takes too long, how do you think they can get there faster?
One Hundred Shoes. By Charles Ghigna. Illus by Bob Staake. 2005. 32p. Random House Books for Young Readers. (978-0375821783) Gr K-1. A rhyming book where we learn how Centipede chooses his shoes. Why such a big deal you ask? He has one hundred feet!
Lessons/Activities/Centerwork:
Counting Kernels: Here is a great way to combine science and math. Students learn about corn, and think of all the ways we can use it. Then they create their own ear of corn and count to see how many kernels their ear has.
Insect Number LInes. (Free) Printable numberlines up to 100. Always nice to have around your classroom.
Roll to 100: Scroll down the page a little to find instructions for a game that encourages counting (and a little addition!). Students race to cover their sheet of paper with counters.
Electronic Resources:
Interactive Hundred Chart. Use this chart in many different ways. Students can color online and then print following any directions you choose!Learning Planet Counting Game. Choose what number to count by (choose '1' for beginners) and practice counting on.
Assessments:
Animal Dot-toDots. These puzzles are a great assessment tool that can quickly show you if your students have mastered counting up to 100. This page has many different puzzles going up to different numbers so you can use this to your advantage when differentiating.
Help the Hungry Bunny. This number maze could be tweaked a little to test how students are with their knowledge of counting backwards to 10. I would copy and paste new clipart so the bunny and carrots are reversed, but you could always easily make this idea and personalize it to your classes theme using Word or Excel.
• Counting skills are essential components of the development of number ideas; however, they are only one of the indicators of the understanding of numbers.
• Counting forward by rote advances the child’s development of sequencing. The natural numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4.... The whole numbers are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.... Students should count the whole numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,....
• Counting backward by rote lays the foundation for subtraction. Students should count backward beginning with 10, 9, 8,... through ...3, 2, 1, 0.
• Counting forward and backward leads to the development of counting on and counting back.
• The patterns developed as a result of skip counting are precursors for recognizing numeric patterns, functional relationships, and concepts underlying money, time telling, and multiplication. Powerful models for developing these concepts include, but are not limited to, counters, hundred chart, and calculators.
• Skip counting by fives lays the foundation for reading a clock effectively and telling time to the nearest five minutes, counting money, and developing the multiplication facts for five.
• Skip counting by tens is a precursor for use of place value, addition, counting money, and multiplying by multiples of 10.
• Calculators can be used to display the numeric patterns that result from skip counting.
All students should
- Use the correct oral counting sequence in both forward and backward counting situations.
- Understand that skip counting can be used to count a collection of objects.
- Describe patterns in skip counting and use those patterns to predict the next number or numbers in the skip counting sequence.
- Understand that numeric relationships include one more than, one less than, two more than, two less than, etc.
- Understand benchmarks of five and ten.
Books:
The Night Before the 100th Day of School. By Natasha Wing. Illus by Mindy Pierce. 2005. 32p. Grosset & Dunlap. (978-0448439235) Gr. K. It's the night before the 100th day of school, and students are supposed to bring in one hundred of something for show and tell the next day. One student just can't find anything. What do you think he's going to do?
One Hundred Angry Ants. By Elinor Pinsces. Illus by Bonnie MacKain. 1999. 32p. Sandpiper. (978-0395971239) Gr PreK-K. Using rhyme, students watch as one hundred ants march to a picnic. Marching one by one takes too long, how do you think they can get there faster?
One Hundred Shoes. By Charles Ghigna. Illus by Bob Staake. 2005. 32p. Random House Books for Young Readers. (978-0375821783) Gr K-1. A rhyming book where we learn how Centipede chooses his shoes. Why such a big deal you ask? He has one hundred feet!
Lessons/Activities/Centerwork:
Counting Kernels: Here is a great way to combine science and math. Students learn about corn, and think of all the ways we can use it. Then they create their own ear of corn and count to see how many kernels their ear has.
Insect Number LInes. (Free) Printable numberlines up to 100. Always nice to have around your classroom.
Roll to 100: Scroll down the page a little to find instructions for a game that encourages counting (and a little addition!). Students race to cover their sheet of paper with counters.
Electronic Resources:
Interactive Hundred Chart. Use this chart in many different ways. Students can color online and then print following any directions you choose!Learning Planet Counting Game. Choose what number to count by (choose '1' for beginners) and practice counting on.
Assessments:
Animal Dot-toDots. These puzzles are a great assessment tool that can quickly show you if your students have mastered counting up to 100. This page has many different puzzles going up to different numbers so you can use this to your advantage when differentiating.
Help the Hungry Bunny. This number maze could be tweaked a little to test how students are with their knowledge of counting backwards to 10. I would copy and paste new clipart so the bunny and carrots are reversed, but you could always easily make this idea and personalize it to your classes theme using Word or Excel.