Your fingers are great for showing numbers! Hold up 1, 2, 3. One whole hand is 5. Two whole hands are 10.
Key idea
One hand is 5 fingers. Two hands are 10.
For the grown-up: Show numbers on your fingers and ask your child to copy you. Sing finger rhymes. Any fingers are fine for showing a number; there is no one right way. Keep screen time short: two or three problems, then play.
- Try it at home: Show 4 fingers: can your child copy?
- Count fingers on both hands to 10.
- Play “hold up how many” with toys.