About this game

Recognize the number 1

Recognize the number 1: 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

Is one even a number? To a three-year-old, one is often just a thing, not an amount. Recognize the number 1 gives that amount a clear face. Each card asks, read aloud, for the picture that shows 1, and offers three pictures: raised fingers, blue dots, ladybugs or red apples. Only one picture has exactly one. The bank holds five cards, so a Pre-K round always uses those five, and each answer is checked.

Picking out one from two or three is the first step of quantity: a single dot and a single apple share something, a count of one. It also prepares the idea that every number after it is one more. The hint is a body move: hold up one finger, then find the picture that has that many.

The wrong pictures look very close. A card of two blue dots sits beside the card with one, and a quick eye takes it. Hold up one finger next to each picture and ask, "Same as my finger?" Praise the matching: "You checked each picture with your finger."

Aligned with

  • P-MATH 1 Child knows number names and the count sequence.
  • P-MATH 2 Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • P-MATH 3 Child understands the relationship between numbers and quantities.

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