Skip Counting to 20

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Purpose:

You can help your child learn to count in twos and fives from 0 – 20.

What to do:

Skip count in twos and fives with your child.

You can do this anytime: as you drive in the car, walk to school or wait for the movie to start. Remember count backwards too.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12…
5, 10, 15, 20
20, 18, 16, ..

Skip count from different starting places.
8, 10, 12…
10, 15, 20..
14, 12, 10,…

There are lots of opportunities to practice counting in twos and fives. These include:

  • Look at the numbers on letter boxes as you walk.
    What number will be on the next letter box you pass?
    What about the one after that?
  • Count the fingers in your family in fives.
  • Count the socks or shoes in your family using twos.

What to expect your child to do:

  • Start from any number in the skip counting sequence.
  • Skip count forwards or backwards

He Kupu Māori:

skip count tatau māwhitiwhiti
skip count in two’s tatau mawhiti-rua
skip count in fives’s tatau mawhiti-rima
forward whakamua
backward whakamuri

He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:

  • Me tatau mawhiti-rua tāua. Tīmata i te waru. (Let’s skip count in two’s. Start at eight.)
  • Tatau mawhiti-toru whakamuri. Tīmata i te tekau mā rima. (Skip count backwards in three’s. Start at 15.)
  • Tatau mawhiti-rua i ngā waewae katoa i tō tātou whānau. (Skip count in two’s all the legs in our family.)

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