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Rote counting to 100

Rote count forwards and backwards from 0 to 100, beginning from 0, 1, or any given number, by ones

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What a learner can do afterwards

  • Recite the number sequence 1–100 without skipping or repeating
  • Count backward from 20 to 0
  • Count forward starting from a number other than 1 (e.g. 'start at 23')

1 · Read

You count to know how many stickers you have. After 1 comes 2. After 2 comes 3. You say each number once, all the way to 100.

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Count forward one by one, all the way to 20.
Try it together

Priya starts counting at 47. She keeps going: 47, 48, 49, 50, 51. She does not go back to 1.

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Counting backward means going down. After 10 comes 9, not 11. Try counting back from 20 to 0.

Say each number once, in order, forward or backward, without stopping.

The readings and practice questions were written for this counting topic. The videos are linked from their original sources.

2 · Watch

Take it off screen

Print a worksheetA4 with an answer key page for grown-ups. No screen, no internet.

Where it sits

Then practise

18 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.

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Rote counting to 100 · Mathematics, ages 5 to 6 · LightMySky