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About this game
Adding problems: a free Pre-K math game for ages 4-5. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.
A plate of three carrots, then two more from the fridge: that is an adding problem before anyone writes a plus sign. Adding problems is a Pre-K game that turns the moment into five short stories per round. Sami has 3 carrots and gets 2 more; Tom has 6 strawberries and gets one more. The story is read aloud, the picture shows only the starting group, and your child taps one of four numbers. Each answer is checked and explained in a full sentence: 3 and 2 more make 5.
Adding here means joining. A group grows, and the new total is found by counting on from what is already there. The hint says exactly that: count the carrots, then keep counting for the ones Sami gets. Because the added part is not drawn, your child has to hold it on their fingers, which is the bridge from counting to addition.
The likely slip is tapping the number already in the picture, 3, because it is the only amount your child can see. Ask, "Where are the two new carrots? Show me on your fingers." Totals stay between 3 and 9. Name the effort: "You kept counting past the picture."