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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 10 of 11

Count to 100

Count by ones and tens

What your child practices

Counting to 100 by ones and by tens, counting on from any number, and seeing 11 to 19 as ten and some more ones.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.3.7.2; 0.3.5.2 · skip-counting by tens to 100, and counting collections by grouping them in tens

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Count by tens: 10, 20, 30 ... 100.
  2. You can start counting at any number.
  3. 11 to 19 are ten and some more ones.

Example: 10 and 4 more. What number is that? Ten ones fill the frame. 4 more make 14. Answer: 14

Count to 100 in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 10 of 11 in Kindergarten Math, after Build with Blocks and before Sort & Count.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    17, 18, 19, ? What number comes next?

    • 29
    • 10
    • 21
    • 20

  2. Question 2

    What number do the blocks show?

    • 10
    • 12
    • 20
    • 2

  3. Question 3

    10 and 7 more. What number is that?

    • 7
    • 18
    • 17
    • 16

  4. Question 4

    Count by tens: 10, 20, ? What comes next?

    • 30
    • 31
    • 29
    • 40

  5. Question 5

    Start at 15. Count on. What number comes next?

    • 25
    • 17
    • 14
    • 16

  6. Question 6

    What number comes just before 44?

    • 43
    • 34
    • 45
    • 42

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