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Age range > Age 5-6 > Mathematics > Number and place value > Quantity

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Counting quantities

Feed the monkey

Can you give Monkey the number of treats he is asking for?

Draw Monkey's food

Worksheets to draw the right number of treats on the plates.

Place value sweet factory

Understand the size of numbers.

Hungry chicks

Help the chicken feed the chicks!

Islands - How many?

How many pink men are on the islands?

Fun, two, three, four

Fill the seats on the rides.

Fun, two, three, four: Worksheets

Worksheets based on our game for counting seats.

Monkey stacks

Can you give Monkey the number of treats he is asking for?

Island stacks - How many?

How many monsters are on the islands?

Sit down

How many seats do the pink men need?

Comparing quantities

Numerical order: objects

Order the pictures according to the number of items in them.

Island stacks - More or fewer?

Which island has more or fewer monsters? Make one island have more or fewer monsters than the other.

Islands - Island hopping

Put a number of pink men on the green or yellow island.

Island stacks - Island hopping

Put a given number of monsters on the orange or purple island.

Islands - Equal numbers

Put the same number of pink men on each island.

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