10 Free Counting Worksheets for Kindergarten

10 Free Counting Worksheets for Kindergarten

A Post By: Anthony Persico

Are Your Kindergarten Students Ready for These Fun and Engaging Counting Worksheets (with answer keys)?

One of the most fundamental and important math skills is basic counting. This key skill is first introduced at the pre-school and kindergarten levels and forms as the foundation of all math topics that follow (counting beyond single digits, grouping, addition, subtraction, working with money, etc.).

While there are tons of free kindergarten math worksheets available online, they are not all created the same. Many free worksheets are simply bland and uninteresting, leaving much to be desired and often leading children to start their mathematics journey off on the wrong foot. After all, we never want our students to see mathematics as a dull or boring subject (when it is, in fact, quite the opposite).

However, if you are looking for free counting worksheets for kindergarten students that are actually fun and engaging, then you’re in the right place. In today’s post, you will find 10 Free Counting Worksheets that can be download as pdf files, which are easy to print or share digitally.

These colorful worksheets give students an opportunity to practice and apply their counting skills in the context of “find the fib” or “two truths and one lie,” where students are given three counting examples or diagrams (two of which are true and one of which is false) and must figure out which choice is a fib. Why are these kinds of worksheets so effective for helping students to improve their counting skills? Because they require students to think deeply and actually apply their concepts of numbers and counting in a way that allows them to think critically and mathematically (and have fun at the same time).

Ready to see the results for yourself? Go ahead and download and share a few of our free counting worksheets with your kindergartners and see how they react. If you find the worksheets useful and would like to gain access to all of our kindergarten math activity libraries, you can click here to learn more about our membership program and sign up for a 7-day free trial.

Are you ready to download your Free Counting Worksheets for Kindergarten Students?

• Use the links below to download and save each worksheet as a pdf file.

• Each worksheet includes a sample image so you can preview the worksheet before downloading.

• The second page of each worksheet includes an answer key.

• While working on these worksheets, we recommend that you encourage your students to explain why they chose a statement as being untrue. You can take it a step further by asking them how they should change the statement to make it true.

• Whenever you find an answer, ask the question “does this solution make sense?”

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10 Free Counting Worksheets for Kindergarten

How to Download and Print:

Below you will find preview images and links to download all ten kindergarten math worksheets. There will also be a link denoted by a download symbol ⤓. Once you click on one of these links, the corresponding worksheet will download in a new window as a PDF file. Once the file is downloaded, you can save it to your personal device and or print the worksheet.

If you need a more detailed explanation of how to save and/or print any of these free pdf worksheets, please view our video tutorial by clicking this link.

*Note that you can click on any of the worksheet images to see an enlarged preview before you download.

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Counting Worksheet #1:

Topic: Counting Numbers 1-5

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice B is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #2:

Topic: Counting Numbers 6-10

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice B is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #3:

Topic: Counting Numbers 1-10, Grouping

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice A is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #4:

Topic: Grouping, Identify More Than or Less Than

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice A is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #5:

Topic: Grouping, Identify More Than or Less Than

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice C is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #6:

Topic: Grouping, Counting Numbers 1-10

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice C is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #7:

Topic: Grouping, Counting Numbers 1-10

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice C is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #8:

Topic: Grouping, Counting Numbers 10-15

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice B is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #9:

Topic: Grouping, More/Less Than, Counting up to 20

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice A is a fib!

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Counting Worksheet #10:

Topic: Grouping, Comparing Numbers, Counting up to 20

Worksheet Download:

⤓ Click here to download your pdf worksheet

Answer: Choice B is a fib!

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By Anthony Persico

Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

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Halloween is the first big holiday of the school year and an exciting time for students and teachers alike.

As we approach the second half of October, math teachers would be ghoulish not to take advantage of their students’ enthusiasm and Halloween spirit.

There are countless opportunities to creatively incorporate fun and engaging Halloween-themed math activities into your lessons. By tapping into the October excitement, your students will have a more meaningful learning experience.

Looking for ideas? Try adding one of the following fun and engaging Halloween-themed activities into your upcoming lesson plans:

1.) The Hershey Kiss Memory Game

Is there any better motivator than Hershey’s chocolate? This math game from Kids Activities Blog requires you to put a small garage sale dot sticker on the bottoms of Hershey Kisses along with corresponding multiplication facts. Students then take turns flipping them over looking for a match. When you find one, the chocolate is yours to keep! Try using this as a warm-up exercise at the beginning of a class period to get students engaged immediately.

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2.) Sample Space, Probability, and M&M's  

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4.) Graveyard Frequency Tables

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This simple activity from Miss Giraffe's Class Blog gets students to practice collecting and analyzing data using manipulatives. Students are given cotton swabs, black construction paper, and cups full of small Halloween erasers (you can purchase these in large quantities at most party stores), which they will categorize with a frequency table using bones (cotton swabs) as tally marks. Teachers can extend the activity by having students graph their results in a bar chart.   

5.) Halloween Bone Bridge

This Halloween STEM project from Plans for a Better Tomorrow Blog is highly exploratory and hands-on. The lesson can be modified for elementary or secondary math lessons. Students will use materials including cotton swabs, clothes pins, rubber bands, and pumpkin-shaped candies to build a “bone bridge” for length, strength, and/or capacity. Teachers can assess these attributes by having students demonstrate how many pieces of pumpkin candy that their design can support. Watch the video below to learn more about this project and the variations of assessment for different ability levels.  

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🎃Have another idea for an awesome Halloween math activity? Creep it real and share yours in the comments below.

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Add these super fun (and extra spooky) math puzzles to your collection of Halloween Math Activities for elementary and middel school students. Enjoy!

Are you prepared to keep your students focused on learning math during the excitement of the Halloween season?

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Sometimes it takes more than an extra shot of espresso in your pumpkin spice latte to get the job done and savvy math teachers know how to channel their student's excitement into holiday-themed activities.

And since preparing activities can be time-consuming (and you're already so busy this school year as it is), my gift to you this Halloween season is 13 Days of Spooky Math Challenges! 

The following printable Halloween Math Worksheets allow you to inject a little bit of spooky mathematics into your lessons this month.

Each puzzle is a sample from our best-selling workbook 101 Daily Math Challenges for Engaging Students in Grades 3-8, which is available as a PDF download and as a hard copy on Amazon.

Each Halloween Math Worksheet shares a challenge question (answers are included) appropriate for all elementary and middle school grade levels - they are perfect for warm-ups, exit tickets, and homework and extra credit assignments.

Parents can also share these fun challenge questions with your kids to keep them engaged and thinking mathematically this fall.

Now let's get problem-solving!

Download Instructions: You can download any of the challenges by right-clicking the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping each image to your desktop.

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1.) Day 1 of 13

(Hint: Notice that it takes two black cats to make one pumpkin!)

Black Cat = 6

Cauldron = 14

Pumpkin = 12

? = 8

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2.) Day 2 of 13

(Hint: Start with the bucket!)

Candy = 9

Zombie = 1

Bucket = 7

Cat = 5

? = 35

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3.) Day 3 of 13

(Hint: Notice that the pumpkin and the witch's hat have the same value!)

Ghost = 8

Bat = 1

Pumpkin = 4

Witch's Hat = 4

? = 31

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4.) Day 4 of 13

(Hint: Start with the haunted house and don't forget order of operations)

Spider Web = 10

Witch = 5

Moon = 7

Haunted House = 8

? = 30

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5.) Day 5 of 13

(Hint: Start with the ghost first!)

Ghost = 13

Scarecrow = 4

Tree = 7

? = 16

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6.) Day 6 of 13

(Hint: I know it's scary, but start with the zombie hand!)

Werewolf = 5

Witch's Hat = 2

Zombie Hand = 8

Owl = 6

? = 21

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7.) Day 7 of 13

(Hint: To find the haunted house, think about what value that when subtracted from 12 equals that same value!)

Ghost = 25

Broom = 15

Haunted House = 6

? = 16

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8.) Day 8 of 13

(Hint: All candy bags are created equal!)

Candy Bag = 9

Bats = 10

Boo! = 9

Witch = 1

? = 20

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9.) Day 9 of 13

(Hint: Each value comes from doing something to the previous value)

Case #1: ? = 35 (each value increases by one more than its difference with the previous value: +4, +5, +6, ...) 

Case #2: ? = 95 (each value increases by twice its difference with the previous value: +6, +12, +24, ...)

Case #3: ? = 121 (each value increases by the square of the difference with the previous value: +3,+9,+27,...)

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10.) 10 of 13

(Hint: The growth pattern is exponential!)

1,3,6,10,...

Notice that the first value increases by 2, the second value increases by 3, the third value increases by 4, etc.

Case 5: 15 Zombies

Case 8: 36 Zombies

What about case 100?

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11.) Day 11 of 13

(Hint: Remember the multiplicative identity!)

Vampire Lips: 0

Moon = 1

Pumpkin = 2

Frankenstein: 0

Black Cat = 4

Zombie Hand = 5

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12.) Day 12 of 13

(Hint: You need to visualize this situation by drawing a diagram and/or using manipulatives and colored pencils or markers!)

Case 4: 25 Faces

Case 5: 36 Faces

Case n: (n+1)^2

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13.) Day 13 of 13

(Hint: Think about what kinds of values have a product ending in 5.)

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Pumpkin = 5

Witch = 10

Leaf = 50

Ghost = 60

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Save the tricks and the treats (except for the bite-sized Twix bars - those I'll take), I just want your input. Please (oh please, oh please) share your thoughts in the comments below!

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What is a Square?

A square is a closed figure with four sides of equal lengths and four right angles.

What is a Rectangle?

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The quick answer is YES! A square can be a rectangle by definition.

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By definition, a cookie is a small baked treat that is typically round, flat, and crisp.

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But, is every cookie an Oreo?

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Now let’s extend this same exact type of thinking from the cookie analogy to understand why a square is a rectangle.

Every Square is a Rectangle. Here’s Why:

Remember that a rectangle is a closed figure with four straight sides and four right angles.

Does a Square fit this definition? YES! A square is a special kind of closed figure with four straight sides and four right angles that also has sides that all have equal length.

Therefore, we can conclude that:

• A Square is a special kind of rectangle.

• Every Square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square.

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