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Ready or Not, Here I Come

From Schoolhouse Rock! · 1973

Ready or Not, Here I Come
3 min2nd3rd4th5thMath
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Summary

Built around a game of hide-and-seek, this song counts by fives the way you do when you're 'it.' The fives land on a tidy pattern of 5s and 0s.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Built around a game of hide-and-seek, this song counts by fives the way you do when you're 'it.' The fives land on a tidy pattern of 5s and 0s..

  1. What two digits do the fives always end in?
  2. Why is counting by fives so easy to remember?
  3. Where else do you count by fives?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: skip-count, pattern, multiple.

Try it: Count by fives to 50 and list the pattern in the ones place.