Numbers 6-10

Overview

Your student will be learning:

• to match, create and compare sets when saying the number aloud or given the number in written form.
• there is more than one way to show a number.
  • example:
    • 5 and 1 is 6
    • 4 and 2 is 6
    • 3 and 3 is 6
    • 2 and 4 is 6
    • 0 and 6 is 6
• how to use a number line to count forward and backward.
• when looking at two sets of objects, the set with more objects is greater and the set with fewer objects is less.

Resources

• Videos
  • Numbers Song - Counting from 1 to 10. This video uses a short song for your child to use to count to ten forward and backward.
  • Count Backwards. This Sesame Street video uses characters to count backward.
  • Teaching the Stable-Order Counting Principle. Understanding the correct order of counting is reinforced with this Origo video.
  • Teaching the Cardinal Counting Principle. This Origo video illustrates that the last number counted is the total of the group.
  • Teaching the Abstraction Counting Principle. Models show various discrete tangible objects and intangible actions that can be counted in this Origo video.
• Free Apps

• Websites
  • Counting Fish. Your child will count the number of fish on the screen and then click on the corresponding number in this fun game.
  • Monster Mansion - Number Match. This is a matching game for your child to practice numbers and counting.
  • Ten Frame. This game reinforces subitizing on ten frames and finding numbers that make ten.
  • Number Bingo. Number Bingo is a fun way for your child to practice number recognition. There are different ranges of numbers to choose from.
  • Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, and Comparing. The Fuzz Bugs game helps your child practice sorting, counting to ten, and comparing numbers.
  • Five and Ten Frames. This parent website explains what five and ten frames are, how they help your child, and offers activities.
  • A Sense of "Ten" and Place Value. This parent website reviews number sense as it relates to the number ten.
• Books
  • Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. The book Mouse Count illustrates for your child how to count forward and backward. Video link for book.
  • Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. In this story, readers use dots to count.
  • How Do Dinosaurs Count to 10? by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague. This book displays dinosaurs to practice counting to ten.
  • The Oreo Counting Book by Sarah Albee. This inviting story uses Oreo cookies to capture counting backward from ten.
  • Just Enough Carrots by Stuart J. Murphy. As the animals in this story go grocery shopping, your child will learn the vocabulary for more or less.