“This book is about the counting that you already do with your students and about counting in ways you have not yet imagined.” —from the Introduction How to make counting count! This influential book inspires preschool and elementary teachers to experience the joys and rewards of using two activities—Choral Counting and Counting Collections—regularly in their classrooms and in their partnerships with families. It paints a vision for how deeply and creatively children can engage with ideas of number and operations and mathematical sense-making through counting. Megan L. Franke, Elham Kazemi, and Angela Chan Turrou have collected the wisdom of mathematics teachers and researchers across the country who explore activities that are at once playful and intentional, simple and sophisticated. For teachers who want to.