Foundational NumeracyCounting & Number Sense

Counting to 100

Count Naira notes and other items all the way to 100.

12 min

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn to count all the way to 100. Once you can count to 100, you can handle money and big numbers with confidence!

🏪 Market Story

Tunde's father is a bus conductor on a danfo in Lagos. At the end of the day, he counts his ₦10 notes. "Tunde, help me count," he says. Together they count each note: "1, 2, 3..." all the way to 100. "We collected ₦1,000 today!" his father says happily. (100 notes of ₦10 each = ₦1,000.)

📝 Let's Learn

You already know how to count to 50. Counting from 50 to 100 works the same way!

The tens from 50 to 100 are: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

Between each ten: 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, then 60. Then 61, 62, 63... all the way to 100.

Example 1: What comes after 59? 60. After 69? 70. After 99? 100!

Example 2: Count from 77 to 83: 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83.

Example 3: Amina counts ₦5 coins. She reaches 95 and counts 5 more: 96, 97, 98, 99, 100!

✏️ Practice Questions

  1. What number comes after 89?
  2. What number comes just before 100?
  3. Emeka counts from 63. He counts 7 more. What number does he stop at?
Click to see answers
  1. After 89 comes 90.
  2. Just before 100 is 99.
  3. Emeka stops at 70. He counts: 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70.

💡 Remember

Counting to 100 follows the same pattern as counting to 50. After every 9, the next tens number begins. 100 is a very important number — it is 10 groups of 10!