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Counting and Math Rhymes

by FCIT

Counting and Math Rhymes

Counting games are common among children in many cultures. This book collects many traditional counting rhymes and other verses that relate to basic numeracy.

Source: This book was compiled by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and includes passages from multiple sources. Please refer to the passage pages for further source information.

Age
A child’s nursery rhyme involving multiplication.
The Ants Go Marching
A child's nursery rhyme teaching counting.
As I Was Going to St. Ives
A child’s riddle involving multiplication and logic.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
A child's counting rhyme involving a sheep.
Bell Horses
A child's nursery rhyme teaching time.
A Counting Out Rhyme
A child’s counting nursery rhyme.
A Diller, A Dollar
A child's nursery rhyme teaching telling time.
Dinosaurs
A child’s subtraction nursery rhyme.
Doubles
A child’s counting rhyme about addition.
Elephants at Work and Play
A children’s counting poem about elephants.
Fish
A child’s counting poem about goldfish.
Five Little Bees
A child’s addition nursery rhyme
Five Little Blue Birds
A child’s poem about subtraction.
Five Little Chickadees
A children’s subtraction poem about chickadees.
Five Little Ducks
A child’s subtraction poem.
Five Little Fishes
A child’s nursery rhyme involving numbers and counting
Five Little Piggies
A child’s counting rhyme.
Five Little Pumpkins
A counting Halloween rhyme about pumpkins
Five Little Speckled Frogs
A child’s subtraction rhyme
Five Litte Tadpoles
A child’s counting rhyme
Fly Away
A nursery rhyme involving subtraction
Four Little Ducks
A child's counting rhyme involving ducks.
Four Little Fishes
A child’s nursery rhyme involving numbers and counting
How Many Days Has My Baby to Play?
A nursery rhyme about the days of the week.
Magpie Rhyme
A child's nursery rhyme teaching counting.
Multiplication
A funny limerick about the frustration of mathematics.
One for the Money
A child's counting-out game.
One Little Flower, One Little Bee
A child’s rhyme identifying the number “1”.
One Potato, Two Potato
A counting poem.
One to Make Ready
A child's counting-out game.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
A child’s counting game.
One, Two, Three, Four
A child's nursery rhyme teaching counting.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
A child's nursery rhyme teaching counting.
Solomon Grundy
A nursery rhyme that incorporates the days of the week.
Ten in the Bed
A child’s subtraction rhyme.
Ten Little Indians
A counting rhyme about indians.
Thirty Days Hath September
A fun limerick to learn how many days are in each month.
This Little Froggy
A child's nursery rhyme teaching counting: similar to "This Little Piggy."
This Little Piggy
A children’s poem usually counted on toes.
This Old Man
A nursery rhyme involving counting.
This Pig Went to Market
A nursery rhyme about pigs.
Three Young Rats
A child's nursery rhyme about animals featuring the number three.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
A traditional poem/song about Christmas.
Uno, Dos, y Tres
A bilingual counting rhyme in English and Spanish.
  • Year Published: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Country of Origin: United States of America
  • Readability:
    • Flesch–Kincaid Level: 1.2
  • Word Count: 3,772
  • Genre: Nursery Rhyme
  • Keywords: counting, math, riddle
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