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Counting to 100 Games

Counting to 100 Worksheets

It’s super simple to find Counting to 100 worksheets online, however finding hands-on activities for learning to count to 100 is much harder! That is why we’ve developed these free hands-on activity mats you can use to add a little excitement to your classroom. These counting to 100 activities are low-prep, and are easy to implement so that students are sure to engage and retain key math skills while having fun.

When should my students count to 100?

Generally, most students are counting to 100 by first grade (age 6). However, rather than worrying about specific grade or age levels, look for math readiness instead. Can you student count to 20 consistently? Can they go beyond that? Once you move past 20, children will pick up on the simple 0-9 number pattern that repeats itself. You can visually represent this pattern simply by writing out the numbers while you both count together.

Activities for Counting to 100

Here is a free collection of games and resources we’ve specifically developed to help you teach your students to count to 100.

COUNT & GROUP BY 10’S TO 100 MAT

This free count and group activity mat can be used with your favorite set of counters. Expand for skip counting activities.


DIP & DOT PAINT TO 100

If you are looking for a hands-on way to teach counting, then you’ll enjoy this new Dab to 100 activity worksheet. Students use a cotton swab, like Q-tip, to dip and dab their way to 100.

ROLL TO 100 GAME (RACE TO 100)

Students roll their way to 100 with this fun and free multiplayer math game. This can be adapted to a single-player game.

STACK TO 100 GAME

Students use LEGO (TM) or other classic building brick to count and stack their way to 100. This is a great learning mat for hands-on learning.

FREE HUNDREDS CHART

Print this free hundreds chart and hang it up in your classroom or laminate it and place it near your math learning center.

WRITE TO 100 WORKSHEET PACK

These free printable resources will help your student write to 100 and find skip-counting patterns along the way.

Dab to 100 Worksheet

At first, counting to 100 may seem like an impossible feat, but young students can learn to break down the counting into smaller segments. Students quickly realized that after 20, the pattern of counting really is as simple as counting to 10.

Free Count to 100 Activity

If you are looking for a hands-on way to teach counting, then you’ll enjoy this new Dab to 100 activity worksheet. Students use a cotton swab, like Q-tip, to dip and dab their way to 100.

We recommend using a small amount of washable paint, perhaps in a variety of colors to make thing more fun. Students can then dip and dab small dots into each tenframe.

Have your student count each dab out loud as they complete the activity. If you are using this set with younger students you can certainly break up the counting into daily goals. Print up multiple pages of this worksheet and build upon the cunting skills daily.

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If you find your students enjoy dipping and dabbing, you might try our Alphabet Dip and Dot Pictures for extra fun! This is a great way to allow creative expression while building key literacy skills like letter formation and beginning sounds.

Fine Motor Alphabet Activity Pack

Hands-On Math Activities

Math Activities

Learning about math should be engaging and fun for young learners. These free printable math mats bring a little hands-on learning into your homeschool or standard classroom. While file folder math games can also be engaging, these Math Mats are well loved for their ease of use.

The difference between our file folder games and our math mats is that the math mats don’t require any cutting of parts or pieces. These are hands-on math activities with little to no-prep time! They are the ultimate Print and Play type of math activity….which is why teachers and parents LOVE them so much!

While you don’t have to mount them to the inside of a file folder, we do recommend either laminating them or storing them in page protectors. If you don’t have access to these, printing on cardstock would also add some stability to your game board.

Because there is NO cutting of pieces, you will need some sort of math manipulatives to work with. For a no-cost option try using coins, beans, noodles etc. I often use our Centimeter Cubes alongside the math mats, but you could use bricks or counters as well. If you are looking to stock up your fine motor resources, you can view all our top picks here.

Students will enjoy answering their math problems with brick towers! These math mats build number sense math skills while students are busy having fun! What student wouldn’t LOVE to play with building bricks for math time? We have a HUGE Brick Building Game Pack available here if you find your little ones are interested in these sets.

Another option for these math mat game boards is magnetic numbers. In fact, you could place the math mat on a cookie sheet so that the numbers will actually stick to the gameboard. These magnet numbers are 1.5″ tall and they are just the right size for our printable math sheets.

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Fraction Strips Printable

Contents:  Our free printable fraction strips are designed to make it easy to teach children fractions and fraction equalities. These printables are available in color and black and white.  I recommend you print them on colored cardstock paper and laminate for durability.

Free Printable Fraction Charts

This set of printable fraction strips includes the following sizes:

1/2   1/3   1/4   1/5   1/6   1/8   1/9   1/10   1/11   1/12   1/16

Making a Whole: Children can try their hand at filling the Whole strip using different sized fraction bars.  Have them write down their final results as an equation.

You can print these sheets and have students cut them out to visually identify the equivalent fractions as they go.

For example;  1/9 + 1/9 + 1/9  + 1/3  + 1/3  = 1

Alternatively, print a set of colored fraction strips and cut them out. Then have students match them up using the black and white sheet as a matching board. You might even have students glue their work down as they go.

Learning about Equivalent Fractions: Use this set of printable fraction bars to guide children with their understanding of equivalent fractions.

Printable Fraction Strips

Print this free fraction strip printable sheet to make your own fraction strips. Available in color or black and white, we recommend printing on card stock and laminating for best results.

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Printable Hundreds Chart

This free printable hundreds chart in color and black and white.

Hundreds Chart Printable

Free printable hundreds chart you can use to help students learn to count to 100. Print one 100’s chart for each student notebook and practice counting with your kindergarten students each morning before math lessons.

100’s Chart Printable

Free printable black and white hundreds chart you can use to help students learn to count to 100. Build number recognition, and following directions skills with simple prompts like “Find and color number 37 green”

A hundreds chart is a fantastic student reference tool for learning counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This number chart prints in full color and can be laminated for durability. Add this hundreds chart to your mini-office folder, or hang in the classroom for reference.

More Hundreds Chart Teaching Resources:

Hundreds Chart

Find Blank Hundreds charts, 100’s chart games, worksheets & more.

Counting to 100 Games

Number of the Day Worksheets

Write to 100 Worksheets

Free Hundreds Chart

Contents:  This set includes a free printable hundreds chart in color, black and white, and blank for children to write in the numbers.

Expansion Ideas: These charts are helpful for mini office and resource centers.  The blank versions can be adapted to work on skip counting by having children color in the squares of each number they land on.

Race to 100 Game: Children can roll their way to 100!  Use a single die and pennies for playing pieces.

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Tangrams Printable

Game Play:  Carefully arrange your shapes to make a picture.  Can you make your own picture?

Game Assembly:  Laminate and cut out your tangram shapes.  Print one set of outline cards and one set of shadow cards. Store in page protector sheets in a three ring binder. Place an envelope in the front pocket of the binder.

Expansion Ideas: Using the shadow cards should make the game much harder for young children.  To ensure they don’t get frustrated encourage them to take a peek back at the outline cards.  Additionally, encourage children to try to make their own shape for others to copy.

Tangrams Printable

This is a free set of tangram printables you can use for your math learning centers. Print the tangrams on cardstock and the tangram mats on white paper.

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Pattern Block Printables

Over 700 pages of resources at your fingertips with this amazing Pattern Block Activity Pack. This set includes 230+ unique picture designs with 3 levels of difficulty each. BONUS: 8 universal activity pages covering counting,  graphing, tally marks, addition, subtraction, inequalities, number words, writing, shape identification, ordinal number words and sequencing.  Each sheet can be paired with any of the pattern block mats which cover alphabet, numbers, animals, transportation, seasons, and holidays.  With this set you’ll have no-prep math learning centers for the entire year! Click Here

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