Parent & Teacher Guides
Practical guidance for teaching counting at home, preschool, or kindergarten.
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Counting Activities at Home
Use ordinary home routines for short counting practice that feels useful, playful, and easy to repeat without special materials.
How to Teach Numbers 1-20
Extend counting from 10 to 20 by making the teen numbers visible as ten and some more, not as a new list to memorize without meaning.
How to Teach Numbers 1-10
Teach numbers 1 through 10 by combining spoken number words, physical quantities, written numerals, and repeated practice in short daily routines.
How to Teach a Child to Count
Teach counting in a sequence that begins with real objects, builds one-to-one correspondence, and only then expects children to connect quantities with numerals.