Find the number of a box

💡 How it plays and why it helps

A strip with just one number written on it still has a number for every box. Find the number of a box is a Pre-K positions game that asks your child to find the unwritten ones. Each round shows five strips of five to seven boxes; the first box says 1 and one box is colored. The instruction is read aloud, and your child taps the number of the colored box. Every answer is checked with a quick count from 1.

Giving each box the next number, one box at a time, is how house numbers, seats and calendar days work. It joins counting to position. The hint says it in two short steps: the first box has 1, then say one number for each box.

The likely mistake is tapping 1, the only number your child can see written, and 1 is among the choices on the cards. Start with a finger on the first box: "This one is 1. What is the next one?" Keep going until the colored box. The answers are 3, 4 or 5. Praise the steps: "You gave every box its own number."