Students will understand that after counting a set of objects, the last number they say tells the total number of objects in the set. They practice stating the total after counting without recounting.
Real questions from this skill, graded here. No account, and nothing is saved.
Understand the last number counted tells how many (cardinality)
Kindergarten · Counting and Cardinality · question 1 of 3
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12 rungs. A star at the top.
Count the crosses.
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The last number you say is how many.
That last word is the total.
Maya has 5 ducks at the pond. Touch each duck once. The last number is how many.
Each duck gets 1 number. Skip one and the total is too small; touch one twice and it is too big.
Going along the line in order stops you counting a duck twice.
5 is not the last duck's name. It is how many ducks there are.
Say 1 number for each duck. The last number is how many.
Rushing: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, and saying 4 when there are 5.
Slow down. If a duck has a number, it does not get another.
You touch each duck in a line once and say 1 number for each. The last number you say is 6. How many ducks are in the line? — 6. The last number you say names the whole line, not the duck at the end — so there are 6 ducks.
Look at these apples! Let's count them together to find out how many there are.
Point to the first apple. One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Five was the very last number we said.
So there are five apples in all! The last number you count always tells you how many.
While they climb, your page writes one true line to ask about tonight, and a short note each Sunday.
A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.
An example student.
Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.
An example week.
14 days of every skill, practice packets, Fluency sheets and up to four students. No card.