ROTE RATIONAL COUNTING-ALL COUNTING-ON COUNTING-BACK SKIP COUNTING COUNTING STRATEGIES: ROTE RATIONAL COUNTING-ALL COUNTING-ON COUNTING-BACK SKIP COUNTING
ROTE Producing the standard list of counting words (one, two, three…)
RATIONAL COUNTING Assigning one number word for each item (one-to-one correspondence) Last number represents the number of items Understanding that the size of the objects does not matter, arrangement of them does not matter The order or sequence or direction does not matter
COUNTING ALL Counting all objects in a group, regardless of arrangement, starting with one and ending with the total number in the group.
COUNTING ON Being able to recognize a group as representing a number and continuing on to count an additional group. Ex.) * * * * * * * * * Student would recognize 5 in the first group and would say “six, seven, eight, nine”
COUNTING-BACK:
SKIP COUNTING Being able to count every second or third, or fourth… item (forward and backward) *** *** *** *** *** 3 6 9 12 15