The document describes various counting activities that children engaged in during play outside. It lists that a child counted 43 holes in their shoe, 120 bricks, 7 poles, around 40 pieces of wood on a chair and 24 windows. Other children counted acorns, 160 blue poles on a fence, seats, leaves though they couldn't count them all, trees, and steps around a circle. One group counted 168 bricks in a section and used chalk to keep track, and a child counted bumps and used their hands to keep track of the count. The children were highly engaged in counting and reluctant to come inside to share what they had counted.

1. Being ‘real’
Mathematicians

2. I was counting the number of holes in
my shoe. I got up to 43.

3. We were counting the 100 chart. It
was easy.

4. I was counting the bricks. It was tricky
because there were a lot. I got up to
120.

5. We were counting shoes or feet.

6. I counted the poles. There were 7.

7. I counted the pieces of wood on the
chair. There was forty-something. I
also counted the windows. There were
24.

8. I counted the little drain holes on the
side of the multi. It was tricky to count
because there were lots of them!

9. We counted acorns.

10. We counted the blue poles on the
fence. There were 160. It was kind of
tricky because we kept skipping them
and we kept getting lost.

11. I counted seats.

12. I counted leaves. I counted 100 but I
couldn’t count them all.

13. This is how many trees we counted.

14. I counted how many steps around the
circle.

15. We counted the bricks. There were
168 in this sections. We used the chalk
to keep track of which ones we had
counted.

16. I counted how many bumps. I used my
hands to keep track of which one I was
up to.

17. There was lots of amazing counting.
The children were so engaged it was
hard to get them back inside. They
were just bursting with news and
reports of what they had counted.