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Counting by Tens: Using Beads

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Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas

In this lesson, the teacher uses written numbers and bead bars to demonstrate counting by tens. Students take turns placing the correct number of bars to represent 10, 20, 30 and so on until they reach 100. The class counts together out loud as the bars are placed and then reviews with a song.

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Okay, friends today we’re going to learn about counting by tens. We’re going to learn, counting, by tens with a ten-bar. What is this called? A ten-bar. How many unit beads are on a ten-bar? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. So, this is a ten-bar, and this is ten. What number comes after ten, if I’m counting by tens? Twenty. So, let me take another ten-bar. Ten, twenty. Now Nicolas, would you like to come to the next one for me, please? What number is the next one? Thirty, thirty. Very good. Okay, do thirty for me, please. Let’s count with him friends, ten, twenty, thirty. Very good. Ashton, would you like to come so forty, please? Ten, twenty, thirty, forty. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. So, we got up to 100. So let’s sing our nice song. I can count by tens, all to one-hundred. Ten, twenty, thirty. Forty, fifty, sixty. Seventy, eighty, ninety. One-hundred. Let’s count with me. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one-hundred. So, now today we learned how to count by tens, using our ten-bar. And how many units again are wired on this bar? And ten units is a ten-bar. Thank you, friends. You did great.

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