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Series: Focus on the Lesson

Movement Counts

Movement Counts

February 1, 2016 This is a Video - for grade levels Pre-K, Kindergarten
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Students roll a die and mimic animal movements to connect counting words, visual number arrangements, and actions.

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Movement can be a powerful way for children to internalize one-to-one correspondence, the understanding that each object in a set must be counted once and only once.

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    Counting has rules that apply to any collection. Read More

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    Counting can be used to find out “how many” is in a collection. Read More

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