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Touch and count each one: Pre-K math

One-to-one correspondence when counting. A free pre-k 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: one-to-one correspondence when counting.

Teach (10 min)

  • Touch each dot and say one number for it: 1, 2, 3….
  • The last number you say tells how many.
  • 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/whole.count?lesson=prek-count-5&at=PreK

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Touch and count each one (Pre-K)

  1. How many dots?
  2. How many dots?
  3. How many dots?
  4. How many dots?
  5. How many dots?
  6. How many dots?
  7. How many dots?
  8. How many dots?
  9. How many dots?
  10. How many dots?
  11. How many dots?
  12. How many dots?
Key
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 3
  6. 1
  7. 4
  8. 4
  9. 3
  10. 1
  11. 3
  12. 2

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