2. Counting in Groups

Look and Guess the Number

The first image shows some cups placed one over another. There is one cup in the first row, two cups in the second row, three cups in the third row and four cups in the fourth row. The second image shows some pairs of shoes arranged in rows. There are three pairs of shoes in the first row, three pairs of shoes in the second row and three pairs of shoes in the third row.

Can you guess how many cups?

Can you guess how many pair of shoes?

There are two boys and one girl, one boy is asking the total number of cups and the other boy calculates and tell. Then , the boys asks the total number pf pairs of shoes, the girl calculates and tell.

3 and 6 cups and 5 cups below. That should be 10 cups.

There are 3 lines with 3 pairs of shoes in each line. That makes 9 pairs of shoes.

Look at how different things are kept in groups. Try to guess the total number without counting each thing.

There is a man and four groups of cups are kept and there are three cups in each group.
_____ glasses

There is a woman and she has five groups of bangles with five bangles in each group.
_____ bangles

There are twenty four pairs of earrings.
_____ pairs of earrings

There are three groups of spoons.

There are three groups of spoons with eight spoons in each group.

How many in each group?
Guess the total number of spoons.

Ask children to guess the numbers of things around them. The idea here is to encourage them to look at the arrangement of objects and use the strategy of counting in groups.

More or Less, Let Us Guess

Ring the correct answer:

Number of teeth in your mouth	More than 40 Less than 40
Number of seeds in an orange	More than 50 Less than 50
Number of matchsticks in a matchbox	More than 30 Less than 30
Number of pencils in your class	More than 45 Less than 45
Number of spokes in one cycle wheel	More than 20 Less than 20

Hop Till You Drop

The first image shows a boy fell on the floor. The second image shows a boy jumping on his right foot.

How many times can you hop on your right foot without falling?

A boy is jumping on his left foot.

How many times can you hop on your left foot without falling?

Join the Dots

Jojo doggy is hungry. Join the dots in order, from 21 to 52, and find out what is hidden for him to eat.

There is a dog and some dots are to be joined from number twenty one to fifty two.

Naughty Bhurru

Bhurru has torn some pages of this book.

A dog with some torn pages of a book in his mouth. A boy is angry to see the torn pages of the book.

Write the page numbers in the correct order.

There are seven torn pages of the book Number forty eight is written on he second page of the book. There is blank space on the other pages for writing the numbers.s

Puzzling Tail

Chipku rat has a long tail.

When he was sleeping, naughty cat thought of tying his tail to the poles.

She started from the pole with the biggest number. She moved on to the smaller numbers in order.

Help her in tying. But the tail should not cross itself anywhere.

There is a cat standing near a pole on which number twenty seven is written. There is a grassy path on which numbers from twenty eight to thirty seven are written, but not in order. On the other side of the grassy land, a rat is sitting.

The Big Carrot

An old man planting a carrot seed in ground.

An old man planted a carrot seed.

The old man is trying out a big carrot from the ground.

The carrot grew big and sweet. It grew very very big!

He tried to pull out the carrot but it did not come out.

He quickly called his wife.

The old man pulled the carrot leaves and the old woman pulled him. But they could not pull it out.

The old woman called her granddaughter. The old man, the old woman and the granddaughter tried but could not pull the carrot out.

The old man, the old woman and their granddaughter are trying to pull out the carrot.

The granddaughter called the dog. The old man, his wife, the granddaughter and the dog could not pull the carrot out.

Then the dog called the cat. Everyone pulled and the cat held on to the dog's tail. The carrot did not move.

The cat called the mouse.

A mouse, a dog, a cat , the old man, the old woman and their granddaughter are trying to pull out the carrot.

They all pulled hard together and the carrot came out. ZABOOM! They all fell down!

The carrot came out of the ground and the mouse, cat, the old men all fell down.

They were so excited! So they all went to the kitchen to make gajar ka halwa and ate it up.

Look at the picture and write:

A mouse, a dog, a cat , the old man, the old woman and their granddaughter are trying to pull out the carrot.

How many are pulling the carrot out?
Who was the first one to pull it?
The cat is _____ in the line.
Who was the fourth one to pull the carrot?
How many were pulling the carrot before the cat came to help them?
Make a cap on the third one in the line.
Make a moustache for the sixth one in the line.

Teachers can create practice activities for the use of ordinal numbers. For example, make 6 children stand in a line. Assign them positions as first, second, third etc. with respect to some reference point. Give them interesting tasks to perform, such as 'third child, tickle your partner', 'second child, hold your nose', etc.

Seema's Century

Seema has made a design with different bindis.

A girl has made a design with bindis on a paper. There are eight groups of bindis, with ten bindis in each group.

Look at the groups and guess the total number of bindis.
Draw more groups to complete 100. How many more bindis did you have to draw?

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