Summary
“Count by 5's (Jack Hartmann)” is a Jack Hartmann song-and-movement video that teaches counting and skip-counting in a steady pattern while getting the whole class up and moving.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Counting in order — and in equal jumps when we skip-count — builds the number sense behind addition and multiplication.
- What are you counting by in this song?
- Why is skip-counting faster than counting by ones?
- Can you keep the count going past where the song stops?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: count, skip-count, pattern, number, order.
Try it: Count in the song's pattern and write the first ten numbers you say.