About this game

Count to 6 and write the numbers

Count to 6 and write the numbers: 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

Watch a five-year-old count bats on a screen and you will see the finger race ahead of the words, or the words race ahead of the finger. Count to 6 and write the numbers is a Kindergarten game built for that moment. Each round brings five pictures of bats, from one up to six. The instruction is read aloud, your child counts, then types how many there are. Every answer is checked, and the explanation counts the bats again: "One, two, three, four: there are four bats."

The idea underneath is cardinality. The last number you say tells how many are in the whole group. Typing that number, rather than reciting, asks your child to stop and name the total.

The usual slip is a bat counted twice, often one that sits close to its neighbor. The hint button says the same thing you can say: "Touch each bat only once." Let your child try again before you help. When the round ends, praise the care, not the score: "You touched every bat and wrote the total."

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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