About this game

Complete the strip

Complete the strip: 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.

How it plays and why it helps

Watch a child read a number strip and you will often see a finger slide back to 1 before going anywhere. Complete the strip, a Pre-K counting game, starts some strips in the middle: 2 to 6, 5 to 9. Each round has five strips with one empty box. The instruction is read aloud, and your child taps the missing number among four choices. Each answer is checked and explained: after 5 comes 6, then 7.

Starting in the middle trains the number sequence as a chain where every number has a fixed neighbor, not a song that only works from one. The hint gives one clear move: read the number just before the empty box, then say the next one. Children use that same move later to count on.

The likely slip is tapping the number just before the gap, so the strip reads 3, 3 instead of 3, 4. Run a finger along the strip and ask, "What do we say after three?" Saying it aloud helps. Missing numbers run from 3 to 8. Notice the reading: "You said the strip all the way to the end."

Aligned with

  • P-MATH 1 Child knows number names and the count sequence.
  • P-MATH 5 Child associates a quantity with written numerals up to 5 and begins to write numbers.
  • P-MATH 2 Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.

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