About this game

Two baskets: how many in all?

Two baskets: how many in all?: 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

Five carrots here, one carrot there: how many altogether? Two baskets: how many in all? is a Kindergarten game built on that question. A picture shows two baskets of carrots, butterflies, balls, ducks, fish, lemons or apples, and a short sentence names who filled them. Your child taps the total from four numbers. Five baskets make a round, the instruction is read aloud, and every answer is checked and explained: 5 and 1 make 6.

Putting two groups together is the heart of addition. The hint teaches counting on: count the fuller basket, then keep going with the other one without starting again. Totals stay between 4 and 8. Fingers can check them.

Some cards offer the number of the fuller basket itself: 5 for five and one, 3 for three and one. A child who counts one basket and stops will find it waiting. Point to the smaller basket and ask, "Did these join the count?" Praise the whole count: "You kept going into the second basket."

Aligned with

  • K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
  • K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
  • K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5.

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