Counting Stick

Content Name

Counting Stick

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Description

The counting stick is a piece of mathematical apparatus that has been available in schools for many years. Its use was particularly widespread in the early 2000s, when the National Numeracy Strategy advocated the use of the counting stick as part of the mental & oral starter, making it one of the key ways to develop children’s confidence in counting steps and tables facts.

Curriculum

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, EYFS

  Years:

  Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Age 0-2, Age 2-3, Age 3-4

  Subjects:

  • Mathematics

  Topics:

  • ELG: Number
  • ELG: Numerical Patterns
  • Number - addition and subtraction
  • Number - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Number - number and place value

  Programmes of Study:

  • add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
  • add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0
  • add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and 100s
  • add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and 10s
  • add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and 1s
  • add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: 2 two-digit numbers
  • add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: adding 3 one-digit numbers
  • add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and 10s
  • add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and 1s
  • Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts
  • compare and order numbers up to 1,000
  • count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000
  • count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
  • count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000
  • count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in 10s from any number, forward and backward
  • count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s
  • count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
  • perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers
  • solve problems with addition and subtraction: recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
  • solve problems with addition and subtraction: applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
  • Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5
  • Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system

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