Ways to Count Anchor Chart with Counting Strategy Posters

This "Ways to Count" anchor chart with counting strategy posters set is a math visual aid that is designed to help students acquire, practice, and improve the foundational skill of counting. With it, mathematicians of all ages can learn strategies to develop their understanding of the concept of counting. The set includes an anchor chart that shows six different strategies for counting. Additionally, there are six accompanying strategy posters that detail the six strategies from the anchor chart.

This download is 7 pages total. A fun and engaging way for teachers to add this anchor chart to the class is by playing a modified version of the game Charades. Grab the math manipulatives and learning materials you would use to do these 6 counting strategies. Act each one out while students guess what counting strategy you're showing them. As students guess the strategies correct, go over that section of the poster as a class.

K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

K.CC.A.1 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1)

K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

K.CC.B.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects

Includes 7 ready to print PDF pages. Page 1 in the file is the "Counting Strategies" Anchor Chart. Pages 2-7 are individual charts for each of the strategies for counting seen in the page 1 anchor chart.