Teaching Rationally Counting to 15

For this assignment I must teach 10 first grade students to count rationally to 15. All the students in this assignment can count rationally to 10 already. I will discuss the steps that I will use to address 4 counting principles. The principles I will address are one-to-one correspondence, stable order rule, order irrelevance rule and cardinality rule. I will include informal assessments that will be used to show if mastery has been achieved. Included in this activity will be ways to modify the activities to accommodate ELL students and those with learning exceptionalities.

In order for students to have a greater chance of success in school they should have basic skills. One of the basic skills students should have involves the use of numbers. Students that have difficulty with numbers will have a difficult time mastering counting skills. Teachers who are willing to build basic skills help with student success.

One-to-one correspondence is the first counting principle I want to address. For this concept students will match one number to each of the 15 objects they are learning to count. Each student is given 15 Skittles and a piece of construction paper with the numbers 1-15 written in a straight line on it. The students will place one Skittle on each number written on the paper. They will say the numbers 1-15. The will then touch each Skittle as they count aloud saying one number at a time touching each Skittle as they go.

Now we will deal with the stable order rule. In order to master these rule students must continuously say numbers in order. One mistake student’s often make is to consistently skip or leaves out a particular number. If the student counts to 15 five different times and continuously leave out the same number they have not mastered this rule. In an effort to correct this and demonstrate proper counting I would provide the student a tape recording that allows them a chance to listen to proper counting. I would provide...