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    • ▾Kindergarten
      • ▾Counting and place value
        • •Counting from pictures, oral response
        • •Counting objects by property
        • •Counting to 100 by ones
        • •Counting to 100 by tens
        • •Counting on by ones or tens
        • •Understanding zero
        • •Write numbers
        • •Counting objects, line or rectangular array
        • •Counting objects, scattered and circular arrangements
        • •Compare by matching or counting
        • •Compare written numerals
        • •Counting by category
        • •Count, represent and write teen numbers
      • ▸Addition and subtraction
        • •Add and subtract within 5
        • •Composing and decomposing within 10
        • •Addition, missing number word problems
        • •Addition and subtraction, concrete and visual
        • •Add and subtract within 10
      • ▸Measurement and geometry
        • •Compare measurements without tools
        • •Measurement tools
        • •Naming shapes in the real-world
        • •Naming shapes regardless of orientation or size
        • •Relative positions
        • •Identify shapes and solids
        • •Compare attributes of shapes and solids
        • •Build solids
        • •Compose 2D shapes
        • •Simple repeating patterns
        • •Growing patterns
     › Kindergarten › Counting and place value

    Counting from pictures, oral response

    Start by asking questions about the number of whole objects, such as how many birds? Then ask questions about the number of parts, such as how many beaks in all? how many feet? Everything necessary to count should be pictured, no inference necessary. That is, the student should be able to point to what they're counting. Students respond orally. We want to make sure kids can count before we connect utterances to written numerals. For ideas of things to count via pictures, see this lesson and practice by Khan Academy.

    Count and represent using fingers. Also count and represent using objects, such as counters, Unifix Cubes, base ten blocks, etc. Then represent by drawing. For example, draw 3 circles.

    TODO: I vaguely recall a Khan Academy practice where the student drags a number of objects into a bin. If the range of numbers is small, this might be a good digital implementation.

    Watch these Khan Academy videos:

    • Counting with small numbers
    • Counting in order

    Do these Khan Academy exercises:

    • Find 1 more or 1 less than a number
    • Count in pictures
    • Count in order

    Conclude by leading this investigation:

    Graphene Trampoline (logic & probability)
    by MathPickle

    K.CC.B.4: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

    Lessons and practice problems