Children Education | Counting numbers 1 to 10 | Learn to count with animation
- 11 months ago
Though every child is different, most toddlers will be able to count to 10 by the time they are two-years-old.
The seven stages of teaching these numbers are:
Counting up to 10
Counting down from 10 to 1
Counting things
Understanding and responding to spoken random numbers between 1 and 10
Being able to say random numbers when shown the figure
Recognizing and responding to numbers written out as words,
Being able to write the numbers
The teaching ideas below more or less follow the order above.
Counting up and down
The best activities for this are ones that engage the kids and whose actions etc give them some reinforcement of the size of the number they are hearing or saying. The simplest way of doing this is getting louder and louder as they count up, then quieter and quieter as they count down. This can be combined with actions in “Growing Numbers”, a TPR activity in which they start crouched down with their heads down and their arms around their knees for “1” and get bigger and bigger as they count until they end up stretched up high for “10”. Stepping backwards and forwards as they count also works in the same way. There are also plenty of story books and songs for counting up and down, e.g:
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Five Little Ducks Went Out One Day
Ten Little Indians
One Little Finger (Tap Tap Tap)
Ten Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall
There Were Ten in the Bed (and the Little One Said Roll Over)
There aren’t many actual games for counting all the way from 1 to 10, but the teacher could stop early or make a mistake and get the students to correct them. Alternatively, they could add another challenge that makes it more difficult for students to get from 1 to 10, e.g. having to throw a ball back and forth without it touching the ground as they count, or counting as they stack up blocks to make a tower. You could also finish all classroom games when one team reaches ten points and ask the class to count the points before they go on to the next activity.
Counting things
There are plenty of games where students count how many of something there is. The best things for students to count are things that are around them in the classroom. This is more fun and active if you ask them to run around and touch things as they count them in response to questions like “How many windows are there?” You can add more of an intellectual challenge to this by half hiding some of the things (e.g. staplers and boxes of crayons) around the room.
Students can also run around to practice counting up to different numbers by the teacher telling them how many things they should look for and asking them to touch as they count them, e.g. “There are five in this room. What are they?”
Random numbers
Although they then go on to count, the last two ideas above already involve students producing or responding to numbers without necessarily counting first. In all the games below they can also count on their fingers etc but will find that learning not to nee
The seven stages of teaching these numbers are:
Counting up to 10
Counting down from 10 to 1
Counting things
Understanding and responding to spoken random numbers between 1 and 10
Being able to say random numbers when shown the figure
Recognizing and responding to numbers written out as words,
Being able to write the numbers
The teaching ideas below more or less follow the order above.
Counting up and down
The best activities for this are ones that engage the kids and whose actions etc give them some reinforcement of the size of the number they are hearing or saying. The simplest way of doing this is getting louder and louder as they count up, then quieter and quieter as they count down. This can be combined with actions in “Growing Numbers”, a TPR activity in which they start crouched down with their heads down and their arms around their knees for “1” and get bigger and bigger as they count until they end up stretched up high for “10”. Stepping backwards and forwards as they count also works in the same way. There are also plenty of story books and songs for counting up and down, e.g:
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Five Little Ducks Went Out One Day
Ten Little Indians
One Little Finger (Tap Tap Tap)
Ten Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall
There Were Ten in the Bed (and the Little One Said Roll Over)
There aren’t many actual games for counting all the way from 1 to 10, but the teacher could stop early or make a mistake and get the students to correct them. Alternatively, they could add another challenge that makes it more difficult for students to get from 1 to 10, e.g. having to throw a ball back and forth without it touching the ground as they count, or counting as they stack up blocks to make a tower. You could also finish all classroom games when one team reaches ten points and ask the class to count the points before they go on to the next activity.
Counting things
There are plenty of games where students count how many of something there is. The best things for students to count are things that are around them in the classroom. This is more fun and active if you ask them to run around and touch things as they count them in response to questions like “How many windows are there?” You can add more of an intellectual challenge to this by half hiding some of the things (e.g. staplers and boxes of crayons) around the room.
Students can also run around to practice counting up to different numbers by the teacher telling them how many things they should look for and asking them to touch as they count them, e.g. “There are five in this room. What are they?”
Random numbers
Although they then go on to count, the last two ideas above already involve students producing or responding to numbers without necessarily counting first. In all the games below they can also count on their fingers etc but will find that learning not to nee