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Skip Counting

Skip counting is a basic skill that young children can master. Counting by 10’s is essential for an

understanding of place value. Counting by 5’s is a strategy that is often used to

read time on analog clocks

as well

as to

count coin

values. However, skip counting can be something of an abstract concept to teach. This is why I

highly encourage the use of a visual support in the form of a hundreds chart.

You can use the chart to explain to your child that counting by 10’s means counting only the numbers that

end in zero. Let your student, color, circle or highlight the numbers used to count by 10’s. Doing this let’s your child

see the number pattern that emerges as well as provides a handy visual support to use anytime he needs to count

by 10’s. Don’t worry. Your child won’t need this visual support forever. But while he is learning it can really make a

positive difference.

Use the same strategy for counting by 5’s but add that skip counting by 5’s means counting only the

numbers that end in 5 and 0. Again, use a 100’s chart as a visual support.

Skip Counting