## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

#### Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Cognitive Development (CD)

#### Subdomain: Mathematical Thinking and Expression

#### Goal: Children show understanding of numbers and quantities during play and other activities

#### Skill Progression: Counting

#### Age: 54-60 Months

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### Counts to 100 by ones (with emphasis on the pattern)

Situations for Observation of Skill

At the end of the tricks. Have pairs bring their cards to the adult, who then helps them count by 10’s to see how many cards they have all together. Stop at 100 and check this number out, by counting them all by 1’s to see if they were right.

Elicitation Strategy

At the end of the tricks. Have pairs bring their cards to the adult, who then helps them count by 10’s to see how many cards they have all together. Stop at 100 and check this number out, by counting them all by 1’s to see if they were right.

Behavior Observed

The child counts to 100 by ones.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

This is a great trick to teach children to do with their parents. Ask the parents for a deck of cards, if available in the home. If not, tell the children they can make cards by cutting pieces of paper and writing the numbers from 1-10 on them. Tell them to arrange their cards without their parents seeing. This way their parents will be really surprised when they know the right number. Tell them to practice before they do it for their parents, so they know they will pick the right numbers. Parents will love this activity!

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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