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About this game
Copy the model: a free Kindergarten math game for ages 5-6. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.
Copying a word letter by letter is how many children start writing, and a skipped letter is the classic slip. Copy the model is the Kindergarten version with shapes. A model row of five or six colored shapes is shown, and your child taps the row that is exactly the same, from four. The instruction is read aloud, a round has five models, and each answer is checked.
Matching a sequence exactly trains ordered looking: same shapes, same order, nothing added, nothing lost. The hint gives the method. Compare one shape at a time, from left to right. Patterns, words and numbers all depend on that habit.
Several decoys are one shape short, with the rest in the right order. They look complete until you count. Ask your child to touch each shape on the model, then on the choice: "Did we touch the same number?" Praise the checking: "Shape by shape, you found the match."