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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.CC.B.5Unit 2: Numbers 6–10: counting, making & writing

Counting in different arrangements

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🎯 Objective: Students count up to 10 objects arranged in a line, an array, a circle and scattered.

Lesson outline

  1. Model counting a circle: mark the starting object so you know where to stop.
  2. Count scattered objects by moving each into a line.
  3. Station rotation: count lines, arrays, circles and scattered sets.
  4. Exit: count a circle of 8 dots.

Lesson 3 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K.CC.B.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Count up to 10 objects in lines, arrays and circles
  • Show numbers to 10 as “5 and some more”
  • Write numerals 0–10

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Counting & Cardinality📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Numbers 6–10: counting, making & writing”

  1. Counting 6 and 7
  2. Counting 8, 9 and 10
  3. Counting in different arrangements
  4. Writing numerals 6–10
  5. Count out a number of objects
  6. One more, one less

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