What is Number Basics?

Number Basics is built to help students develop their foundational math skills and number sense. It was designed with our youngest learners in mind. Every question has audio read-aloud, and there are a lot of visuals throughout the practice mode as well. When using Number Basics, students will be working on the following skills: number recognition, systematic counting, one to one correspondence, quantity comparison, estimation, and number patterns, and more.

What are the Levels and Skills in Number Basics?

Students progress through each skill (in order). They move to the next skill after they have gotten 90% or higher accuracy on two sessions in a row. Once they have completed all the skills within that level, the next level is unlocked.

Level 1—Numbers

• Skill 1: I can name the numbers 1–5
• Skill 2: I can name the numbers 5–10
• Skill 3: I can name the numbers 10–20
• Skill 4: I know that numbers can be shown with pictures
• Skill 5: I know that numbers can be shown with pictures and words

Level 2—How Many?

• Skill 1: I can count 5 or fewer objects
• Skill 2: I can count group of objects between 5 and 10
• Skill 3: I can count a group of objects between 10 and 20
• Skill 4: I know when two groups have an equal number
• Skill 5: I can recognize a group of 10 or fewer dots
• Skill 6: I can count on one ten frame
• Skill 7: I can count on two ten frames

Level 3—Counting

• Skill 1: I can count to 5
• Skill 2: I can count to 10
• Skill 3: I can count to 20
• Skill 4: I can count on for 10 more
• Skill 5: I can count on between 10 and 100
• Skill 6: I can count backwards from 10
• Skill 7: I can count backwards from 20

Level 4—Bigger and Smaller

• Skill 1: I can choose the group that has more
• Skill 2: I can choose the group that has less
• Skill 3: I can choose the bigger number
• Skill 4: I can choose the smaller number
• Skill 5: I can estimate a group of objects up to 20
• Skill 6: I can estimate a group of objects up to 100

Level 5—Number Patterns

• Skill 1: I can tell what number comes next
• Skill 2: I can find the missing number in part of a 100 chart
• Skill 3: I can find the missing number in a whole 100 chart
• Skill 4: I can count by 10s
• Skill 5: I can count by 5s
• Skill 6: I can count by 2s

What does it look like when students use Number Basics?