About this game

Represent objects up to 10

Represent objects up to 10: 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

Hold up one finger and ask what it shows. The answer is one, and so is one dot, one marble or one green circle. Represent objects up to 10 is a Kindergarten game, but its same five cards all ask for the same number: 1. Each card offers three pictures, such as a dice face, a hand, marbles or squares, and your child taps the one that shows 1. The other pictures show 2 or 3. The instruction is read aloud, and every answer is checked.

One number can wear many outfits. Dots, fingers and objects all represent the same amount when there is one of them. Recognizing that across forms prepares the step to bigger numbers, which this game does not ask for yet.

The trickiest picture holds two marbles, one green and one yellow. Each color has just one, so a child may answer one. Not quite. Count them together with a finger, then ask, "How many marbles in all?" Praise the counting: "You counted the marbles, not the colors."

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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