This task/game allows students to practice addition while also thinking about ways to organize counting by randomly selecting two (two-digit) number cards and finding the sum. In addition, students are prompted with guiding questions to promote discourse. In closure, students use writing to reflect on their learning and thinking strategies during the game.

Teachers reads the story, Five Little Speckled Frogs, by Nikki Smith (published by Nikki Smith Books, 2006). Students explore counting to five using cubes.  This lesson helps build the concept of 5.  Appropriate for grades K and could also be used with 4K.