Counting

There are 101 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Counting
How Many?
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How many?

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5 to 11
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Have a look at these photos of different fruit. How many do you see? How did you count?
Count the Crayons
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Count the crayons

Age
5 to 7
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How could you estimate the number of pencils/pens in these pictures?
Five Steps to 50
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Five steps to 50

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5 to 7
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Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
Sorting the Numbers
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Sorting the numbers

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7 to 11
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Can you put the numbers in the correct place in this Carroll diagram?
Snail One Hundred
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Snail one hundred

In this game, you throw a dice and move counters along the snail's body and in a spiral around the snail's shell. It is about understanding tens and ones.

How would we count?
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How would we count?

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5 to 11
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An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

All Change
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All change

Age
5 to 7
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There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?

Jumping squares
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Jumping squares

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5 to 7
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In this problem it is not the squares that jump, you do the jumping! The idea is to go round the track in as few jumps as possible.
Sort them out (1)
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Sort them out (1)

Age
5 to 7
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Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
Noah
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Noah

Age
5 to 7
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Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?