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🔢 Pre-K math · Counting & Numbers

Touch and count each one

Touch each dot and say one number for it: 1, 2, 3… The last number you say tells how many.

Worked example

How many dots?
Answer: 1
Touch each dot as you count, one number for each dot: 1. The last number you say is how many there are: 1.
1

For grown-ups: One-to-one correspondence when counting. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS K.CC.B.4a
What this practises, for teachers

Practices one-to-one correspondence when counting (K.CC.B.4a). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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🖨️ Printable sheet and key

On the board with this skill:

Try three

  1. How many dots?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 2
    Touch each dot as you count, one number for each dot: 1, 2. The last number you say is how many there are: 2.
    12
  2. How many dots?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 3
    Touch each dot as you count, one number for each dot: 1, 2, 3. The last number you say is how many there are: 3.
    123
  3. How many dots?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 2
    Touch each dot as you count, one number for each dot: 1, 2. The last number you say is how many there are: 2.
    12

Before and after

Comes next: The last number tells how many (K)

Name: ____________________Date: ____________Score: ____ / 12

Touch and count each one (Pre-K)

  1. How many dots?
  2. How many dots?
  3. How many dots?
  4. How many dots?
  5. How many dots?
  6. How many dots?
  7. How many dots?
  8. How many dots?
  9. How many dots?
  10. How many dots?
  11. How many dots?
  12. How many dots?

Answer key

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 3
  6. 1
  7. 4
  8. 4
  9. 3
  10. 1
  11. 3
  12. 2

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