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M2. One-to-One Counting (One-to-One Correspondence)

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The child uses counting to identify how many items are in a set and says, points to, or gestures to identify one number at a time (each item is counted once and only once).
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Age Range Activiites
2-3 Years 3-4 Years 4-5 Years K Alignment
  • M2.1

    Uses any number to signify "how many" while clearly not knowing what that number word means (e.g., when asked, "How many?" child replies "five" without counting, looking at, or knowing how to count to five).
  • M2.2

    Demonstrates and uses one-to-one counting to count up to four items (e.g., a child is asked to answer how many blocks are in the pile, and then touches each item once while counting).
  • M2.3

    Demonstrates and uses one-to-one counting to count with sets up to 10 items.
  • 0.3.5.3

    Read, write, compare, order, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 31 (with 0 representing the count of no objects) to answer the question, "how many?" Representations may include numerals, pictures, real objects, picture graphs, spoken words and manipulatives, such as connecting cubes. The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a 10 and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or nine ones. (MP4, MP8)