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Use hands-on and engaging activities with math manipulatives to reinforce one-to-one correspondence skills. Perfect for number recognition, counting skills, number formation.

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Every year I have some students who struggle with one-to-one correspondence. It is difficult to move on to other math subjects before they have mastered this skill, so I developed this pack to focus on their counting skills.

I use these activities with a few students in guided groups to make sure they are getting the most out of the activities. I change out which of the manipulatives I am using to keep them engaged in their learning.

Here is a look at all the activities that I included; I kept them very simple to focus on counting. I store these in a bin ready to use so that it is just grab-and-go!

Counting Bears

Bears are always a favourite math manipulative with kindergarten students. I don’t know if it’s the cuteness or the colours, but they love using them! These cards are made so that students can put a bear on each image and use their finger to trace the number.

Clothespin Counting

This activity will also work on fine motor skills as they count. Clip a clothespin to each circle and count as you go. This is great for slowing down their counting, so they are not skipping numbers.

Snap Cube Towers

Who doesn’t love building towers? Add a math component to make counting fun for your students. I had our students count the cubes as they built to make sure they matched the number on the card.

Sticker Counting

This was a huge hit with my students! I had pulled it out to work with 1 of our kids, and I soon had a table full of students who also wanted to do it. There is just something about stickers that children love to use! There are two versions included: one with circle outlines and one without. This makes it easy to differentiate for your students.

Colour and Count

This is another recording page that students love to colour. It can also track their progress, keep them for assessment purposes, or send them home for extra practice.

Link Counting

Students used plastic links to make chains to match the numbers on the card, and then they attached the chain to the card by linking it through the hole I made. Another great fine motor activity, along with a fun way to practice one-to-one correspondence!

Find all these activities included in this pack:

More one-to-one correspondence

If you are looking to learn more about this skill or find more activities- take a look at my Counting Principles blog post. I take a deep dive into it! These Pick it! Build it! Write it! activities are another great way to work on counting skills.

You can also learn more about how I run my math centers- I wrote a post about Everything You Need to Know About Math Centers.

Which one of these activities is your favourite? Do your students have favourite math manipulative? Let me know in the comments!

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