Find the last one in the line

💡 How it plays and why it helps

In the line for the slide, the last child knows something useful: their place number is also how many children are in line. Find the last one in the line, a Pre-K positions game, is built on that link. Each round shows five lines of carrots, strawberries, fish or lemons, from 4 to 8 long. The instruction is read aloud, and your child taps the position of the last one. Every answer is checked and explained: there are 7 fish, so the last fish is in place 7.

Two kinds of number meet here. Seventh tells where; seven tells how many. Counting from the left to the end of the line, as the hint says, shows that the last place and the total are the same number. That idea makes later work with number lines much easier.

The likely mistake is tapping 1, because last and first get mixed up, and 1 is offered as a choice. Ask your child to point to the first one, then ask, "And which one is the end of the line?" Count together from left to right. Praise the whole count: "You counted all the way to the end."