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MATHEMATICS
150 | Number Sense
At around 48 months of age At around 60 months of age
1.5 Use the number name of the last
object counted to answer the
question, “How many . . . ?”
Examples Examples
• Counts the number of sticks in her hand, communicating,
“one, two, three, four, five.” The
teacher asks, “How many sticks do you have?”
and the child communicates “five.”
• When asked, “How many cars do you have?”
counts, “one, two three, four” and communicates,
“four.”
• Counts the beads in her necklace, communicating,
“one, two, three, four, five, six.” A friend
asks, “How many beads do you have?” and the
child replies, “six.”
1.5 Understand, when counting, that
the number name of the last object
counted represents the total
number of objects in the group
(i.e., cardinality).
• After giving away some bears, counts the
remaining bears to find out how many are left
and communicates, “I now have six bears.”
• Lines up cars on a track and counts, then
communicates, “My train has seven cars!”
• Counts dolls, “one, two, three, four” and
communicates, “There are four dolls.”
• Counts her sticks and communicates, “I have
five,” when the teacher asks during an activity,
“Does everyone have five sticks?”
• Counts five apple slices and recognizes there is
one slice of apple for each of the five children
around the table.
Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1 • California Department of Education