Cluster 1: Know number names and the count sequence. (Major Cluster)Archived

Help George count backwards to launch a rocket.

Type: Educational Game

Count along with George by popping bubbles from his bath. You can pop the bubbles by counting out loud with George if your computer has a microphone. If your computer does not have a microphone, you can click on the bubbles to count!

Type: Educational Game

Help Froggy jump to the other side of the pond! Start with Froggy's number and click the lily-pad with the next higher number.

Type: Educational Game

Help George search for hidden numerals, number words, and animals in this hide-and-seek game.

Type: Educational Game

Count along as Allie counts up to 20 objects in a counting book for George.

Type: Educational Game

This site features an educational game of chance set to the familiar nursery rhyme "The Incey Wincey Spider". It helps students learn to move along a track on either side of a central point, as a precursor to working on a number line. The game is played with two people who roll a die to move either up or down a vertical waterspout. The game can be played with the applet or on paper. All you need is two dice (number generators).

Type: Educational Game

A printable hundreds chart featuring a 10x10 table numbered 1 to 100. (found on Illuminations website under "Trading for Quarters")

Type: Educational Software / Tool

Students are shown the numbers 0 - 20 nonsequentially and asked to read each number aloud.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students begin counting at a number other than one.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are read the book, You Can Do It, Sam, by Amy Hest and are asked to count the number of cakes and houses in the illustrations.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are told what day of school it is and then asked to determine what day it will be 10 days later and what day comes after day 59.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use counters and ten frames to model and write given numbers.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to match four ten frames representing different numbers to the correct numerals.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students count the objects in a set and write the number of objects they counted.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students write the number of objects counted in sets of objects.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students write the numbers they hear in a story.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students count to 100 by tens.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students count by ones to 45.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students begin counting at a number other than one.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to count by tens and then use pictures of bundles of tens to demonstrate when counting by tens.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to consider what number comes next in the known sequence.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to determine the total number of counters in three bags. One of the three bags is labeled with the number of items it contains, and the total number of counters is less than 20.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students use ten frames to Count On from a number other than one.

Type: Formative Assessment

This collection contains over 630 clipart images that can be used for counting. There are Florida-themed flash cards for numbers 0 - 10 offered in English, Spanish, and bilingual options. Illustrations of hands depicting finger counting in both American style (beginning with the index finger) and European style (beginning with the thumb) are available. There are also images of 3-dimensional designs made of cubes and illustrations of bundles of sticks and dominoes for teaching skip-counting, addition, and place value.

Type: Image/Photograph

Students will identify the American flag as an important symbol of the United States. They will collect and sort data from the American Flag and compare the attributes. Students will sort and count red stripes and white stripes, long stripes and short stripes, long red stripes and long white stripes, short red stripes and short white stripes. Students will compare the stripes using the number line. They will also count stars by 1’s and 10’s in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will piece together a puzzle with numbered pieces (1-10 or 11-20) to reveal an image which they should recognize as a symbol that represents the United States (ie: American flag, bald eagle, U.S. Presidents George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) in this integrated lesson plan.

Type: Lesson Plan

Counting to five can be fun! After reading Over in the Ocean and exploring animals in the coral reef, students will use goldfish to count out numbers 1 through 5. Students will count using one to one correspondence and explore with numbers and manipulatives. They will then explain how they know the number 5 represents five objects.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed to provide students explicit instruction on counting forward using something they love: Candy! Students will use the candy as a real-world example of a time when counting forward is a useful strategy, in the context of getting goodie bags ready for a party.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this game, students will be using a pack of cards to fill in a tens frame by placing the numerals from 1 to 10 in order in the frame. Garbage tests students' skills with number recognition and being able to count forward, or backward, beginning from a given number within ten.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will work cooperatively to help Sweetie Cake Pops choose the best cake pop help improve their recipes. They will work in groups to look at data and generate responses orally and in writing.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed to teach students to write and represent groups of numbers using drawings. This lesson will cover the numbers 1 to 5.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will count forward from a given number while manipulating animals in a pond during a read aloud by the teacher.

Type: Lesson Plan

Get your antlers ready and be prepared to travel to the Great White North to count to 100 by 1's and 10's. Bullwinkle the Moose and Fred the Reindeer show students how counting to 100 can be fun. Part of this interactive lesson can be done every morning during calendar time to continue practicing counting by 1’s and 10’s.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will learn to count to 100 by 10's. The relationship between the numbers 1-10 and 10-100 will be made using the 100's chart followed by a PowerPoint story about Little Count the Caterpillar. Students will make their own Little Count the Caterpillar using circle body segments, where each circle represents the numerals 10, 20, 30... 

Type: Lesson Plan

For this lesson, students will practice counting from a given number in the counting sequence. Students will go on a "Counting Walk" to practice this concept.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will practice one-to-one correspondence and counting to 10 using black dots as manipulative.

Type: Lesson Plan

Learn to how to recognize and write the number 5 and count up to 5 objects using 10 frames and number lines as you help Lucy the dog plan a party in this interactive tutorial.  

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Help Lucy the dog recognize and write number 4.  She will also learn to count up to 4 objects using a ten frame and number line in this interactive tutorial.  

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Count on beginning at any number within 11-20 in this playground-themed, interactive tutorial.

This is part 2 in a two-part series. Click to open Part 1, Hopscotch Counting On: 1-10.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Count on beginning at any number within 1-10 in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Help Lucy and Izzy learn to recognize and write the number 2. In this interactive tutorial, you'll also count two objects and use a 10 frame and a number line. 

This is part 2 in a multi-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials.

• Part 1: Where Is My Bone? Numbers 0 and 1

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Help Lucy and Izzy explore the numbers 0 and 1 using writing, ten frames and number lines in this interactive tutorial.  

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn how to wash your hands and count to 20 in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Practice counting on by ones from a given number zero through twenty, as you help Miranda and Jacob in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Join Thomas and count to twenty by ones in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn to count to ten by ones with this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

This resource provides teaching ideas related to counting and comparing/sorting different items.

Type: Teaching Idea

This teaching idea describes a project for kindergarten students. Students create a book of numbers 1-10. Each page has the numerical and written form of each number, as well as colorful drawings that corresponded to that number.

Type: Teaching Idea

In this activity, learners find as many combinations of a hundred as they can using various puzzle pieces from a hundred square grid paper. This activity helps learners understand that numbers are made up of other numbers. Learners will also practice using patterns and geometry, counting, and adding. This activity guide contains sample questions to ask, literary connections, extensions, and alignment to local and national standards.

Type: Teaching Idea

This resource provides teaching ideas related to counting and comparing/sorting different items.

Type: Teaching Idea

In this activity, students demonstrate that they know the value of numbers by writing numerals and gluing seeds on paper apples.

Type: Teaching Idea

A printable list of nine counting book references.

Type: Text Resource

In this 6-lesson unit, students make groups of 10 to 20 objects, connect number names to the groups, compose and decompose numbers, and use numerals to record the size of a group. Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities are included in each lesson.

Individual Lessons

• This lesson focuses on numbers 0-10, having students making groups of objects, identifying and writing numerals, and recording the number of objects in groups. First the teacher will use the concept of a "high five" to get students to make "high tens" and so on with numbers up to ten. Next they will use connecting cubes to build towers and compare them using descriptive vocabulary. They will use ten frames to lay down the conceptual framework for benchmark numbers, fives and tens. Finally they will make bean sticks to be used in a later lesson.
• Lesson 2: Building Sets of 11 and 12
• This lesson focuses on learning the numerals 11 and 12. First students will be shown the numeral 11 and asked how many tens and ones are in it. They will be given 10 each of two different colors of connecting blocks, and asked to make a tower of ten of one color, then add one of the other color. This will reinforce the concept of ten as a single unit. Next they will make a tower of 12, and then they will trace their tower and color it accordingly.
• Lesson 3: Building Sets of 13 and 14
• This lesson focuses on learning the numerals 13 and 14. First students will be shown the numerals 13 and 14 and asked to clap and count to each. They will be given 10 each of two different colors of connecting blocks, and asked to make a tower of ten of one color, then add the appropriate number of the other color. They will then trace their tower and color it accordingly. They will then use two ten frames to place the cubes and count out their numbers individually.
• Lesson 4: Building Sets of 15 and 16
• This lesson focuses on learning the numerals 15 and 16. First students will be given connecting cubes arranged in a set of 12-16 cubes and are asked to separate them into a group of ten and the rest singles. Then they are given loose cubes of two colors and asked to make a tower of 10 of one color, and add 5 of the other color. Students will trace the tower and color it accordingly, then write "15" using the first crayon color for the "1" and the other color for the "5". They will repeat this activity for 16. Next, they will then use two ten frames to place the cubes and count out their numbers individually. Lastly, they will use their bean sticks to count out and draw 15 and 16.
• Lesson 5: Building Sets of 17 and 18
• This lesson focuses on learning the numerals 17 and 18. First students will be distributed number cards and bags of connecting cubes, then asked to determine if their numeral card matches the number of cubes in the bag. If not, they are to determine whose bag does and trade with them. Next, they will be shown the numeral 18 and asked to clap and count it out. They will be given connecting cubes and asked to model 18 (and then 17) in ten frames. Then they will sort the cubes and record them into as many sets of two as they can. The next activity uses a spinner applet to randomly pick numbers 10-20 for the students to assemble towers and model bean sticks.
• Lesson 6: Building Sets of 19 and 20
• This lesson focuses on sets of 19 and 20. Students use ten frames, connecting cubes and bean sticks to compare other sets to a set of 20, construct and decompose, identify, write, and record groups of up to 20.

Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence

In this 8-lesson unit, students make groups of zero to 10 objects, connect number names to the groups, compose and decompose numbers, and use numerals to record the size of a group. Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities are included in each lesson.

Individual Lessons

• Students group from zero to five objects, identify and use number names for groups, compose and decompose numbers, and record groups by writing with numerals. Students will acquire a sense of number through visual, auditory and kinesthetic activities.
• Lesson 2: Writing Numbers to Five
• Students construct groups up to five, identify how many in a group, and record them using numerals. They will learn the words for numbers through five in order (rote counting), and develop the ability to count rationally.
• Lesson 3: Building Sets of Six
• Students will construct sets of six, compare sets of up to six objects and learn to write the numeral 6. They will use a Ten Frame and recording charts to show sets of six.
• Lesson 4: Building Sets of Seven
• Students will learn to identify and construct sets of seven, compare them to sets of up to seven and record them in chart form.
• Lesson 5: Building Sets of Eight
• Students will learn to identify and construct sets of eight, compose and decompose to eight, and write the numeral 8.
• Lesson 6: Building Sets of Nine
• Students will learn to identify and construct sets of nine, write the numeral 9, and record it in chart form. They will also be required to identify sets of up to nine in a game.
• Lesson 7: Building Sets of Ten
• Students will learn to identify and construct sets of up to ten objects, compose and decompose sets, practice writing numerals 0 through 10, count back from ten, and record it in chart form.
• Lesson 8: Wrapping Up the Unit
• Students will review all that they have learned in the other 7 lessons in this unit by composing, decomposing, and comparing sets of zero through ten, and by writing cardinal numbers for each set.

Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence

What does 100 look like? Sound like? Feel like? In this video from Teacher's Domain, Curious George helps students explore the many ways to measure 100 things.

Type: Video/Audio/Animation

This interactive Flash applet supports the exploration of numbers to 100 by simulating a 100-bead string. A teacher or child can move all or some beads to the left or right to add and subtract. The controls allow users to move beads individually or 10 at a time to model different counting and calculation strategies. Users can hide or show the numbers represented by the beads. This applet lends itself well to use on an interactive white board. A PDF guide to this collection of teaching applets is cataloged separately.

Type: Virtual Manipulative

This applet contains four games (How Many?, Build, Fill, and Add) that utilize a frame with five slots for students to place objects, which helps students develop counting and addition skills.

Type: Virtual Manipulative

This applet asks students to save as many octopuses as possible before the timer runs out. A number of how many they can net is displayed in the top right, and they will use the mouse to net that amount into the tank before releasing them for the next round. When the timer is up, another screen comes up with the number of octopuses saved represented in rows of ten. Finally, students will be asked to input on a number line how many they successfully saved.

Type: Virtual Manipulative