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About this game
Find the position of a box: 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.
In a line of parked cars, which one is first depends on where you stand. Find the position of a box puts that idea on a strip of five or seven empty boxes, one of them colored. The instruction, read aloud, asks your Pre-K child to count from the left and choose the position of the colored box among four numbers. Each round has five strips. Every answer is checked.
Counting from the left is a convention, the same one used to read a line of print. Young children do not always know it yet, so the game states it on every card and the hint repeats it: start with the box on the far left. Knowing which end to start from is part of the skill, not a detail.
The choices are built to catch the other direction. On a seven-box strip with the second box colored, 6 is offered, which is the answer counted from the right. If your child taps it, ask, "Which side did you start on?" Then say what went right: "You picked a side and counted every box."