Long ago people counted by carving marks into bones and sticks.
Before there was paper, people cut little notches to keep track of how many. Some of those old counting bones are super ancient!
💡 Counting Objects — Fun Facts
Fun “Did you know?” facts about Counting Objects — tap through 10 at a time!
An abacus is a bead tool people have used to count for ages.
You slide little beads along rods to add and count. People have used the abacus for thousands of years, even before pencils.
Zero means there is nothing there to count.
If your plate is empty, you have zero cookies. Zero is a real number too, and it tells us when something is all gone.
People often count on their fingers because we have ten of them.
Your two hands make a handy counting tool. You can show any number from 0 to 10 just by holding up fingers.
You can count things in any order and still get the same total.
Start with the red block or the blue block, it does not matter. Five blocks are five blocks no matter where you begin.
The last number you say tells how many there are.
If you count apples and the last one is '4', then there are 4 apples. The final number is the total!
Counting means saying one number for each thing you touch.
Point to each toy and say one number: 1, 2, 3. Giving every object its own number helps you count without missing any.