Kindergarten Numberlines- What's Wrong with this Picture?

The simple reason why ColorMyMath number line is better than others is we focus on formatting for the child to understand counting and not formatting for the publisher to print.

Bad number lines start with 1 basketball and finish with 20 sticks.

One big basketball and lots of little sticks?! What's wrong with these pictures?

If we start out counting basketballs, then we finish counting basketballs. This takes up too much space and formatting becomes a problem.

Many number lines on the market have the flaw of changing the objects that are being counted, putting smaller objects in for the larger numbers so the objects fit on the page.

The objects/dots in the ColorMyMath  number line simply stay the same size.

Counting is more logical by simplicity than the previous example. By adding the same "measure" a dot, the child can now see the relationship between counting to larger numbers and making bigger groups.

The ColorMyMath number line also reinforces the previous learning goal for the child: recognizing bigger and smaller. The number line beautifully displays small, big, bigger, bigger still, biggest!
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