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Count to 100: Kindergarten math

Count to 100 by ones and tens. A free kindergarten lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: count to 100 by ones and tens.

Teach (10 min)

  • Counting by ones adds 1. Counting by tens adds 10.
  • 10, 20, 30, 40, and so on to 100.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.k_countTo?lesson=k-numsense-countto-1&at=K

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 2, 3, 4, 5, ?
  • 2. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 7, 8, 9, ?
  • 3. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 12, 13, ?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 2, 3, 4, 5, ?
  2. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 7, 8, 9, ?
  3. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 12, 13, ?
  4. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 6, 7, ?
  5. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 8, 9, ?
  6. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 9, 10, 11, ?
  7. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 93, 94, ?
  8. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 40, 50, 60, 70, ?
  9. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 69, 70, 71, ?
  10. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 20, 30, 40, 50, ?
Answers
  1. 6
  2. 10
  3. 14
  4. 8
  5. 10
  6. 12
  7. 95
  8. 80
  9. 72
  10. 60

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Count to 100 (Kindergarten)

  1. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 4, 5, 6, ?
  2. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 9, 10, ?
  3. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 8, 9, ?
  4. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 13, 14, ?
  5. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 50, 60, 70, ?
  6. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 60, 70, ?
  7. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 11, 12, ?, 14
  8. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 50, ?, 70
  9. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 50, ?, 70, 80, 90
  10. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 30, ?, 50, 60, 70
  11. Count by tens. What number goes where the ? is? 10, ?, 30
  12. Count by ones. What number goes where the ? is? 85, 86, ?
Key
  1. 7
  2. 11
  3. 10
  4. 15
  5. 80
  6. 80
  7. 13
  8. 60
  9. 60
  10. 40
  11. 20
  12. 87

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