In an effort to teach skip-counting by 2s, 5s and 10s in a more creative way I introduced "Frederick the skip-counting frog". Frederick's main problem is that he can never quite find his way home and always needs our help to place his lily pads for him to hop back to zero. I would pretend to get a phone call from Frederick who would tell us what number he was stuck on. Students would then place the lily pads as we explored if he could skip-hop by 2s, 5s and 10s. Students would raise a red light if an path was unsafe and a green if Frederick was allowed to start hopping back. This also allowed me to see when students might not be getting the concept and do a formative checklist assessment.
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