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Counting Games for Students Aged 3-5

A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of early years mathematics. The games enable students to develop their skills of number recognition, counting, comparison and writing of numbers.

The games, with their mathematical content, are:

*Reading numbers game - matching numbers in words to numerals

*Counting rays - reading numerals

*Animal circles - saying and counting

*Animals - reading numbers off a dice

*Boxes - reading and saying numbers

*Flowers - strategy game

*Houses - matching objects to numbers

*How many petals? - counting

*Number balloons - writing numbers

*Pizzas - counting

*Presents - saying numbers and counting

*Racing numbers - reading numbers

*Snake - matching numbers

*Snow people - counting

*Spring time - counting to 8

*Stars - saying numbers and counting

*Stars and moons - finding the highest of two numbers

*Stripy-squares - counting

*Sun - matching numbers

*Sun or moon - saying numbers and counting.

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