Sorting and counting: printable worksheets
Sort a pile of pictures into kinds, count each kind, and answer questions about the counts.
Sample worksheet
The first 2 problems of a real worksheet, made the way the builder makes it. Open it in the builder to change the number of problems, the difficulty and the layout, then print.
1.
Count each kind. Write the
number.
| Bears | Mugs | ||
| Suns |
a. Which kind has the most?
2.
Count each kind. Write the
number.
| Hearts | Birds | ||
| Mugs |
a. Which kind has the fewest?
Show answers
1.
| Bears | 1 |
| Mugs | 5 |
| Suns | 6 |
| a. | Suns |
2.
| Hearts | 3 |
| Birds | 2 |
| Mugs | 1 |
| a. | Mugs |
What students practise
I can sort and count things, read a graph, and answer questions about the data.
Students sort objects into categories, record counts with tally marks, pictures and bars, read the key or scale of a graph, and answer how many, how many more and which has the most.
Key words
- category
- a group of things that are alike
- tally mark
- a line that counts one; four lines and a slash make five
- key
- the part of a graph that tells what one symbol stands for
- scale
- the number each step on a graph stands for
- bar graph
- a graph that uses the length of bars to show counts
- line plot
- a graph with an X above a number for each measurement
Common mistakes
- Counts the symbols on a scaled picture graph and ignores what each one stands for.
- Reads a bar that ends on a line as if it ended between two lines.
- Reports the value under a stack instead of how many X marks are in the stack.
Standards
Common Core State Standards this worksheet practises.
- K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (unverified)
Related topics
- Before this: Count objects (Kindergarten)
- Next: Tally charts and picture graphs (Grade 1)