Count On to Add (within 20)

On Iqleel, first-grade students will practice a smart and fast strategy for addition called 'counting on'. They will learn to start with the bigger number in an equation and then count on to find the sum. This is an important first step in building mental math skills and helps make adding much quicker than counting everything from one.

• Problem Solving and Logic
• Number Sense and Operations
• Whole Numbers
• Addition
• Mental Math
• Word Problems
• Add
• Addend
• Adding
• Equations
• Sum
• Fact Family
• Counting
• Number Line
• Operations

• 1.OA.C.5 — Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
• AC9M1N04 — add and subtract numbers within 20, using physical and virtual materials, part-part-whole knowledge to 10 and a variety of calculation strategies
• ENG-MATH-Y1-AS.3 — Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0.
• NY-1.OA.5
• ZA.CAPS.MATH.G1.NOR.1.13

• Represent Addition as Putting Together (up to 10)

• Add Doubles with Models