I would like to show you how I teach counting by five to the students in my
classroom. To begin with, I would have three students come to the front of the
room. This is student one, student number two, and student number three. Let's say,
oh, and I was have their fingers extended, so that all the students could see the
fingers on their hands. And, I'd say class I would like us to count the
fingers that you see, and together we would count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. And, I go to a boys and girls,
that took us a long time to get that counted. How could we count them quicker?
I would it take all the answers that they said and listen, and then direct
them to, we could count by fives. And we would practice. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. we would
do that a couple of times, and then, I would demonstrate that a couple of times.
And then, we would count together. 5 put the number 5 on their hand, 10, 15, 20, 25,
30. Boys and girls how many fingers do you see? And then they would say 30.
That's a nice job of counting. I would bring up two more students. So, now I have
student 4 and I have student number 5. And, we go through the same process again.
I would say boys and girls count with me by one. So, we're going to
count their fingers and we do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. We go all the way around
until we got to, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50. I'd say, oh my goodness boys and girls that took
us a long time to count. How can we do it quicker? Well now they
will tell us to count by fives, and I'd say okay boys and girls let's count
together. We'd count 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. Boys and girls that was much
faster way to count by 5's. Nice job. After we practiced this several times I would
have my children sit in a circle, and we are going to play the count and sit game.
And, the way we would play it is, we would count by 5 all fingers are extended 5, 10,
15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. Our target is 50. So, this student would sit down and then
we would start again. And we're only going to 50 to begin with. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25,
30, 35, 40, 45, 50. This student then would sit down. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50.
This student sits down, and then 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. And this student
sits and then we have one student remaining. After we were doing a good job
of counting to 50, we would continue that counting by fives to 100. And this is one
way that I would teach counting by fives to the students in my classroom.