Step by step
The question
Question: how many cookies?
How many cookies?
Here are some cookies.
1 Count
Touch each one once.
Say one number for each.
2 Write the number
The last number is 11.
So there are 11 cookies.
= 11 cookies
3 Check
Let us count again, to be sure.
This time in fives.
Then on: 11.
We get 11 again.
Yes!
It works.
5, 10, 11
Let's look back.
First: count.
Then: write the number.
Last: check.
Answer
= 11 cookies