One to One Correspondence Counting Activity

Counting objects on cards and pairing each one with its number word, one through ten, builds one-to-one correspondence, and a follow-up worksheet has students show a number as a word, tallies and pictures.
Year levels
Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 1
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Updated Sep 20, 2026

Subject
Numbers, Maths
Topic
Statistics
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9MFN01 — name, represent and order numbers including zero to at least 20, using physical and…

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One to One Correspondence Counting Numbers Activity helps students count the objects on each card and pair each object card with the matching number name card.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Skills covered

  • One-to-one counting — counting the objects on each card

  • Number-word matching — pairing object cards with number-name cards

  • Representing numbers — filling in the word, tallies and pictures for a number

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9MFN01 — name, represent and order numbers including zero to at least 20, using physical and virtual materials and numerals

Core concepts

  • One-to-one correspondence

  • Counting to 10

  • Number words

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