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Counting in 2s
PROCEDURALCount in multiples of 2, 5, and 10 (skip counting)
Mastery Evidence
- Count 2, 4, 6, 8 … up to at least 20
- Count 5, 10, 15, 20 … up to at least 50
- Count 10, 20, 30 … up to 100
Assessment Prompt
“If [child] is counting socks being paired up, can they skip-count in twos — 2, 4, 6, 8 — all the way to 20? Can they also count up in fives when counting coins, or in tens on a number line?”
Curriculum Standards3 alignments
K.CC.1Common Core State Standards for MathematicsCount to 100 by Ones and Tens
Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
Counting and Cardinality
Maths/Y1/NPV/2The national curriculum in EnglandCount, read and write numbers to 100
Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of twos, fives and tens.
Mathematics · Key Stage 1
Maths/Y2/NPV/1The national curriculum in EnglandCount in steps
Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward.
Mathematics · Key Stage 1
Unlocks13
- Odd and even numberssoftAges 6—7
- Counting forwards and backwardshardAges 6—7
- Times tableshardAges 6—7
- Odd or EvenhardAges 7—8
- Telling Time: MinutessoftAges 6—7
- Skip Counting (4s, 8s, 50s, 100s)hardAges 7—8
- Counting Within 1,000hardAges 7—8
- Counting forwards and backwards (age 6+)hardAges 6—7
- Multiplication as repeated additionsoftAges 5—6
- Finding efficient methodssoftAges 5—6
- Patterns & SequencessoftAges 6—7
- TenthssoftAges 7—8
- The multiples of 10softAges 6—7