Tally Mark Counting

When teaching subitizing you really should introduce the items or flash cards two ways, once with the number as a digit and the other with the number spelled out. This helps them recognize numbers in multiple forms. After they practiced their numbers, groupings, dot patterns, etc. then you introduce them without the number at all so they can begin to recognize the quantity without counting. 

We teach zero. I know not everyone teaches zero, but we do. If you don't you can remove that card. We also scramble the cards so it isn't the same number on both sides of the cards. We do that so we can shuffle the cards and randomly grab a card. We show one side and then the other side and it will be a different number each time. If you'd like them to line up or would like to change things up they are editable in canva.

There are other subitizing activities randomly throughout the blog, dice, dominoes, finger counting, etc. Check back later as there will likely be more activities as we advance in our math skills. 

I print the cards double sided, laminate and cut them out. If you set your margins at zero then they should line up for double sided printing. Tap or click on the images to open it full size and then download or print it.