K K.CC.B.5 Kindergarten · Counting and Cardinality

K.CC.B.5: Count to answer 'how many?' up to 20

Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, as adopted in the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics (2017), Kindergarten.

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How ColorMyMath teaches it

A number is a quantity you can see: that many colored dots, one fixed color per digit, and a ten is ten dots in a triangle. Counting here is counting things that are really there, up and back down in the same round.

Every page is free and open — nothing to install, no account, and it works on a phone or a classroom board. Every number has its own color: 1 red, 2 orange, 3 yellow, 4 green, 5 blue, 6 purple, 7 brown, 8 pink, 9 cyan, and a number is that many colored dots.

Where it sits in the curriculum

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ColorMyMath · getridoftheteacher.com · every number has its own color, and a number is that many colored dots. Matching a game to a standard is a judgement call; the official text is at doe.mass.edu.