About this game

Learn to count to 10 with the number line

Learn to count to 10 with the number line: 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

A number line on a screen looks like a ruler, and children often tap it like one, by position. Learn to count to 10 with the number line is a Kindergarten game that checks the reading, not the reach. The same five cards make up every round. One shows ten bats; the other four show five animals each: bats, elephants, cows or ducks. Your child counts, then taps the number on a strip of six numbers. Instructions are read aloud, and every answer is checked and explained.

The strip moves. One card offers 1 to 6, another 2 to 7, another 5 to 10. So the answer five sits in a different spot each time, and only the printed number tells the truth. That links the counting word to its written numeral.

A child who found five in the fifth spot once may tap the fifth spot again, landing on 6 or 7. Point to the strip and ask, "Which number did you say last?" Celebrate the reading: "You read the number, not the place."

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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