Summary
“The Counting by Eights Song” is a Scratch Garden song-and-animation that teaches counting and skip-counting in a steady pattern. A short, catchy video — easy to drop into a math lesson, a warm-up, or a transition.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Skip-counting means counting in equal jumps. It's faster than counting by ones and is the first step toward multiplication.
- What size jumps are you counting in?
- Why is skip-counting faster than counting by ones?
- Can you keep the pattern going past where the song stops?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: count, skip-count, pattern, jump, number.
Try it: Skip-count in the song's pattern and write the first ten numbers you land on.