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Standard 1: Know number names and the count sequence. (Major Cluster) Archived

Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.

Cluster Standards

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  • MAFS.K.CC.1.1: Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
  • MAFS.K.CC.1.2: Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
  • MAFS.K.CC.1.3: Read and write numerals from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Cluster Information

Number: MAFS.K.CC.1
Title: Know number names and the count sequence. (Major Cluster)
Type: Cluster
Subject: Mathematics - Archived
Grade: K
Cluster: Counting and Cardinality

Cluster Access Points

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Cluster Resources

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Original Student Tutorials

Educational Game

  • Five Frame: This interactive game uses a five frame to build early counting and addition skills. Students can count up to 5 objects, count out a given number up to 5, determine how many more are needed to make 5, and add within 10 by modeling each addend (0–5) on a five frame.

Formative Assessments

  • Reading Numerals: Students are shown the numbers 0 - 20 nonsequentially and asked to read each number aloud.

  • Count On: Students begin counting at a number other than one.

  • You Can Do It, Sam: Students are read the book, You Can Do It, Sam, by Amy Hest and are asked to count the number of cakes and houses in the illustrations.

  • What Day of School Is It?: Students are told what day of school it is and then asked to determine what day it will be 10 days later and what day comes after day 59.

  • Model and Write Numbers: Students use counters and ten frames to model and write given numbers.

  • Matching Ten Frames to Numerals: Students are asked to match four ten frames representing different numbers to the correct numerals.

  • How Do I Write the Number?: Students count the objects in a set and write the number of objects they counted.

  • Field Trip to the Fire Station: Students write the number of objects counted in sets of objects.

  • Fall Math Story: Students write the numbers they hear in a story.

  • Count the Candy Corn: Students count to 100 by tens.

  • Count By Ones: Students count by ones to 45.

  • Counting On: Students begin counting at a number other than one.

  • Bundles of Ten: Students are asked to count by tens and then use pictures of bundles of tens to demonstrate when counting by tens.

  • Apples in a Bag: Students are asked to consider what number comes next in the known sequence.

  • Counting Strategies: Students are asked to determine the total number of counters in three bags. One of the three bags is labeled with the number of items it contains, and the total number of counters is less than 20.

  • Count the Dots Game: Students use ten frames to Count On from a number other than one.

Lesson Plans

  • She’s a Grand Old Flag: Students will identify the American flag as an important symbol of the United States. They will collect and sort data from the American Flag and compare the attributes. Students will sort and count red stripes and white stripes, long stripes and short stripes, long red stripes and long white stripes, short red stripes and short white stripes. Students will compare the stripes using the number line. They will also count stars by 1’s and 10’s in this integrated lesson plan.

  • Puzzling US Symbols: Students will piece together a puzzle with numbered pieces (1-10 or 11-20) to reveal an image which they should recognize as a symbol that represents the United States (ie: American flag, bald eagle, U.S. Presidents George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) in this integrated lesson plan.

  • Fishing for Five: Counting to five can be fun! After reading Over in the Ocean and exploring animals in the coral reef, students will use goldfish to count out numbers 1 through 5. Students will count using one to one correspondence and explore with numbers and manipulatives. They will then explain how they know the number 5 represents five objects.

  • Goodie Bags: Counting Forward: This lesson is designed to provide students explicit instruction on counting forward using something they love: Candy! Students will use the candy as a real-world example of a time when counting forward is a useful strategy, in the context of getting goodie bags ready for a party.

  • Garbage: In this game, students will be using a pack of cards to fill in a tens frame by placing the numerals from 1 to 10 in order in the frame. Garbage tests students' skills with number recognition and being able to count forward, or backward, beginning from a given number within ten.

  • Sweetie Cake Pops: In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will work cooperatively to help Sweetie Cake Pops choose the best cake pop help improve their recipes. They will work in groups to look at data and generate responses orally and in writing.

    Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

  • Show me 1,2,3,4,5: This lesson is designed to teach students to write and represent groups of numbers using drawings. This lesson will cover the numbers 1 to 5.

  • Counting With SPLASH: In this lesson, students will interact with the book Splash! while counting groups of 6-12 animals, identifying the numerals 6-12, and representing the group with a written numeral.

  • Let Bullwinkle and His Friends Help You Count to 100: Get your antlers ready and be prepared to travel to the Great White North to count to 100 by 1's and 10's. Bullwinkle the Moose and Fred the Reindeer show students how counting to 100 can be fun. Part of this interactive lesson can be done every morning during calendar time to continue practicing counting by 1’s and 10’s.

  • Counting by 10's with Zero the Hero and Little Count: In this lesson students will learn to count to 100 by 10's. The relationship between the numbers 1-10 and 10-100 will be made using the 100's chart followed by a PowerPoint story about Little Count the Caterpillar. Students will make their own Little Count the Caterpillar using circle body segments, where each circle represents the numerals 10, 20, 30... 

  • Let's Go on a Counting Walk: For this lesson, students will practice counting from a given number in the counting sequence. Students will go on a "Counting Walk" to practice this concept.

  • Counting to Ten With Ten Black Dots: In this lesson, students will practice one-to-one correspondence and counting to 10 using black dots as manipulative.

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