Teaching Resource
1–5 Matchup Cards - Transportation
A matchup activity to use in the classroom when working with numbers 1–5.
Use this teaching resource in the classroom when learning to identify, match, and order numbers from 1–5.
Print out the cards on cardstock and cut them out. Store in a resealable bag to be used again and again.
Students must place the number cards in numerical order, then match the transportation card showing the correct pictorial model beside each one.
This activity is great when used in a math center.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A
When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

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