Nursery maths · lesson 18 of 24 · free

Number names 1 to 20 — Nursery and KG maths

Number names are the numbers written in words: one, two, three … twenty. Your child matches a number to its name and a name to its number, and counts pictures and chooses the number name. Names that sound alike (fourteen and four, sixteen and six) are practised side by side.

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How to teach it

Number and name go together — “every number has a name written in words: 12 is twelve”

  1. Say the number aloud: 12.
  2. Find the word that says the same: twelve.
  3. Watch the “teen” words: thirteen to nineteen all end in -teen.

Use it for: Reading number words in stories and writing number names in UKG notebooks.

Worked example: Which is the number name for 12? → twelve

  1. Say the number aloud: 12.
  2. 12 is written “twelve”.

Check: twelve = 12 ✓

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Grown-ups: read the question aloud (or tap 🔊), let your child count the pictures with a finger, then tap the answer together.

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