Unit 2: Numbers to 10

Five and Some More

Below are the tools we use when practicing counting and "seeing" numbers up to 10:

• Fingers -

Poster for Using Fingers to Show Numbers

Finger Counting to 10 Song

• Tally Marks-

Rhyme for remembering tally mark numbers:

"1,2,3,4, wait…. number 5 makes a gate.

6,7,8,9, wait… number 10 makes another gate!"

• Tens Frame -

Because Kindergartners are still solidifying one-to-one correspondence and cardinality, counting by ones is just fine to start. However, many students will begin to employ more efficient strategies that begin leading them toward addition. For example, some will start at a known number and then count up. Others will begin to see combinations and, in effect, add to determine the total.

Tens Frame Song

• Graphing (Tower of Ten)-

This is just a Tens Frame that has two fives on top of each other vertically instead of 2 rows of five , so it can be used the same way.

• Number Rack -

NUMBER RACK VIDEO- (A video that demonstrates how to use a number rack, watch up to about 2 minutes.)

NUMBER RACK APP TUTORIAL

NUMBER RACK APP- (A digital number rack for student use at home.)

Activities to do with the Number Rack:

• Tell a story problem and have your child show it on the rack.

• Ask your child to use it to show and tell their own story problem.

• Answer addition and subtraction equations.

• Give a number to 10 and have your child push that number with only 1 push. IE. Show me 6. That could be 5 red and 1 white and push all together (1 push) instead of pushing 5 red first and then 1 white (2 pushes) or 6 total pushes.

• Give a number and ask how many more to make 5.

• Give a number and ask how many more to make 10.

• Write equations to match!