About this game

Count the marbles to 6

Count the marbles to 6: 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.

How it plays and why it helps

How many marbles are on a die that shows five, plus one more next to it? Count the marbles to 6 is a Kindergarten game with six cards, one for each number from 1 to 6, and five of them make a round. Your child counts the marbles and taps the matching number among six. The instruction is read aloud, and every answer is checked and explained: one, two, three, four, five, that's the number 5.

The hint names the key idea. The last word you say is how many there are. That is cardinality, the moment counting becomes a total instead of a song. The six card adds a step, since six is a five and a one side by side.

On that card, a child who knows the five face may tap 5 and miss the single marble beside it. Point to the lone marble and ask, "Did this one get a number?" Praise the full count: "You counted all six, both faces."

Aligned with

  • K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
  • K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
  • K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

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