Lesson 5 How Many Fingers? How Many Dots?

    • Let’s figure out how many things there are.

Warm-up Estimation Exploration: Connecting Cubes

  1. How many cubes are there?

    Group of connecting cubes.

    Record an estimate that is:

    too low

    about right

    too high

  2. How many cubes are there?

    Ten frame full with connecting cubes. Below, 4 connecting cubes.

    Record an estimate that is:

    too low

    about right

    too high

Activity 1 How Many Fingers?

Draw a line from the fingers to the number that shows how many there are.

  1. Fingers showing 10.
    Fingers showing 6.

    14

  2. Fingers showing 10.
    Fingers showing 3.

    17

  3. Fingers showing 10.
    Fingers showing 9.

    13

  4. Fingers showing 10.

    19

  5. Fingers showing 10.

    16

Activity 2 How Many Dots in 10-frames?

Circle the number that shows how many dots there are.

  1. Ten frame full. 5 counters below.

    1. 10

    2. 12

    3. 15

  2. Ten frame full. 9 counters below.

    1. 19

    2. 11

    3. 14

  3. Ten frame, full. Below, 2 counters.

    1. 13

    2. 15

    3. 12

  4. Ten frame, full. 8 counters below.

    1. 18

    2. 14

    3. 17

  5. Ten frame, full. 3 counters below.

    1. 15

    2. 13

    3. 11

Activity 3 Introduce Grab and Count, Pattern Blocks

Choose a center.

Grab and Count

Find the Pair

Center. Find the pair.

Tower Build

Center activity. Tower Build.

Practice Problem

Problem 1

Draw a line from each picture to the number that shows how many there are.

  1. Fingers showing 10.
    Fingers showing 4.
  2. Fingers showing 10.
    Fingers showing 6.
  3. Ten frame, full. Below, 8 counters.
  4. Ten frame, full. Below, 3 counters.

  1. 13

  2. 14

  3. 16

  4. 18