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Zoo Animal Counting Cards
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Zoo Animal Counting Cards
Help the zoo keeper count the animals and organise the number cards. Count carefully, group animals by type, and look for tens and ones.
Animal counting cards
Use the animal cards below to solve the challenges. Each animal symbol stands for one animal.
Lions: 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁 🦁
Elephants: 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘 🐘
Monkeys: 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒
Zebras: 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓 🦓
1.Count the lions. How many lions are on the card?
- 6
- 7
- 8
2.Count the elephants. Write the number of elephants.
3.The monkey card has 9 monkeys and the lion card has 7 lions. Which card has more animals, and how many more?
4.Use the elephant count on the card to complete the place-value sentence: is ten and ones.
5.The zoo keeper makes one group of 10 zebras from the 14 zebras. How many zebras are left outside the group?
6.Put the animal counts shown on the cards in order from smallest to largest.
7.True or false? There are more zebras than elephants on the animal cards.
TrueFalse
8.A keeper counts 5 more monkeys arriving. There were 9 monkeys to start. How many monkeys are there now? Show how you worked it out.
9.Make a new animal counting card. Draw 1 ten and 3 ones of any zoo animal, then write the total number.
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