Ep 19.5 Games for Counting On

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I'm going to talk with you today about games to help kids learn to count on.

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Now, when kids are in this counting on strategy, they're usually pretty good with numbers to

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20. They're pretty good with their T numbers. They can count them. But what you want to do is

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move them from counting by ones to be able to count on. So for example, if I rolled two dice

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and one was a five and one was a four, I don't want them to have to count one, two, three, four,

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five, and then count four. I want them to be able to hold on to that five and then count on from

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there. So five, six, seven, eight, nine. Kids in this stage of counting are figurative counters.

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And figurative counters can count forward to 30, but not quite to 100. They might have trouble

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crossing a decade. They may have trouble counting backwards from 20. They could probably count

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backwards from 10. They recognize numbers through the teens still working on numbers to 100. They

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usually know their finger pattern to five. They recognize common arrangements on a 10 frame. They

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can describe common dice patterns. So they have a good foundation. We're working on developing more

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sophisticated counting strategies. They'll be able to solve addition tasks. But if I said,

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I have five, how many more do I need to get to eight? That might be a little trickier because

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they have to have their five and then track how many more they counted to get to eight. So we're

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working on those types of skills and to work on that type of skill. What you're going to need to

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do is figure out a way to have kids practice kind of having to keep a number in their head, not being

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able to see it are represented. So make it more abstract and less concrete. So I'm going to share

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with you four games to help your students learn to count on. The first game is called how many

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candies. So for this game, the kids would spin a spinner and that spinner has numbers and a hand.

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So the hand is kind of pretending that inside that hand is that many items, but they can't actually

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see it. So they spend their spinner say that they spawn a three. So they have to keep in their head

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and that there are three and then they move their spinner over to the candy side. And then however

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many there are, they have to count on that many. So if I wrote spun a three, I spin it two, I think

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three, four, five, and then that's my answer five. And so they can either record on a dry erase if

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they're using a mat or on a recording sheet what their spins were and then move on. If they're

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still needing to create the three, you can have those counters available to them. But the idea

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is that they're moving from meeting all of their counters to being able to count on. The next game

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you can play with a spinner or a dice and it's called roll and count on or spin and count on.

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So for this game, you would roll your dice. That's your first number and then you would pick a card

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and the card either has a finger pattern on it, a numeral on it, or a 10 frame. So whatever number

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you rolled, you have that number. So say six, I rolled my six, I have it, and then I pick my card.

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Maybe my card has two, so I have my six and I count on seven, eight, and then I write my total on the

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side. So I have my number I rolled, card I picked, total. And if you're doing the spinner, it was

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number you spun, card you picked, total. Next game is called hide and add. So for this one, similarly,

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you're hiding your number in your card. So you pick a card and those cards have hands on them,

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again hand closed. So the idea is they're imagining that inside that closed hand is whatever number of

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items is on the card. So I might pick a seven. There's seven inside this hand and then I roll

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my dice and however many I get is how many more I'm adding on. So I have seven on my card, seven,

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and then I rolled two more, eight, nine. Nine is my total and I'm writing on my recording sheet.

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And my next game is a partner game that you can play either with a board or in a print and go

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version. You can just print it out and then each student gets a color they can color in.

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So the way that this game works is the kids have two die. So they roll two. So the first player

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rolls both die, wait three seconds, and then cover just one die. So they roll, say that they roll a

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three and a six. So they wait three seconds and cover up the three and then the partner has to

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think, oh how many was that one? Three. And then from their three count on or from the six they

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have six over here and then count on the ones that are hiding under their partner's hand. So they have

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six, seven, eight, nine. And they can either move their counter nine spaces if you're using a game

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board or color in a nine on their print and go version. And again there's an optional recording

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sheet if they want to practice their note, sneak in a little number writing practice with this game.

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So I hope you got some ideas for counting on. I'll have the link to all of these games in the

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description.