Teacher Notes:

Students should be learning to count small collections of objects, keeping track of what’s been counted, and gradually learning to count larger groups of objects by correctly keeping track of what they have already counted. Opportunities to count things should be natural situations within the classroom, such as situations identified in the problem above.

Students should establish a system of tagging (one number to one object) as they touch or move objects while they are counting. This counting and tagging should follow the rote number sequence of counting.