How does counting help us understand the amount of something, and why is this skill important in everyday life?
Adaptive Perseverance: Students practice counting in various scenarios, learning from any mistakes.
Learner’s Mindset: Students approach counting with curiosity, understanding its utility in daily life.
Critical Thinking: Students analyze scenarios where counting is crucial, understanding the implications of accuracy.
Global Citizenship: Recognizes the role of accurate counting in making fair decisions and sharing resources.
How do we use counting in daily activities?
Why is accurate counting important?
What problems could arise if we miscount something?
Students will accurately count items up to 20 and express the total number.
Students will demonstrate the ability to use counting to solve practical problems, such as determining the number of items needed for a task.
Students will explore and discuss the impacts of accurate or inaccurate counting in real-life scenarios.
Standard
K.CC.B.5 - Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
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