Cards in sequence

Age
3-6

Materials

 * 1) Cards 1 to 9 in green, 10 to 90 in blue, 100 to 900 in red, 1000 to 9000 in green.
 * 2) Floor mat.

Presentation

 * 1) Directress encourages the child to count after her as she lays out the cards in sequence, starting with 1, 2, 3 and so on.
 * 2) When she reaches 9, she asks "What comes after 9?" and she lays out 10, 20, 30,... on a new row to the left of the unit row, as she counts "ten, 2 tens, 3 tens,... 9 tens. What comes after 9 tens?", asks the Directress. "1 hundred, 2 hundred,..., 9 hundred, 1 thousand, 2 thousand,..., 9 thousand".
 * 3) The cards are finally laid out on the mat.

Control Of Error
Directress guided.

Purpose

 * To familiarize the child with the sequence of numbers up to 9000.