tap a pad to hear the number · 1 to 5 you already know!
the golden pads are the new numbers — six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
Watch them swim in. Then tap each duck and count. Then find the number!
pick a number to begin
three minutes a day is plenty
1–5 are already friends. Six to ten need new names, so the game builds them as “5 and 3 more” on the ten-frame — the child leans on what they know instead of recounting from one every time.
Counting scattered ducks teaches one-to-one correspondence and stable order. The tap order can be any order — the answer stays the same. That surprise is the whole point.
After the count, always ask the question again. Understanding that the last number answers how many is called cardinality, and it's the step that turns reciting into counting.
Switch to Play to add and remove ducks without a “right answer.” Make 9, add 1 — watch ten fill up. Great for the number-after idea and for calm-down moments.
The 🗣 button turns off the spoken numbers (the on-screen words stay), and 🔊 turns off quacks. Speech uses your device's own voice — if no numbers are read aloud, check the device volume too.
Stairs, spoons, socks, buttons, steps to the car. Any pile of six is practice — and any pile of ten is a triumph worth a high-five.
The Duck Pond Society presents
awarded to
a friend
who counted every single duck, all the way to ten: