--- title: Skip counting by twos, fives and tens — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Skip counting by twos, fives and tens», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When every group has the same number, count by that number: by 2s for pairs, by 5s for hands, by 10s for tens. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/67-skip-counting/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Skip counting by twos, fives and tens # Skip counting by twos, fives and tens Lesson 67 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/67-skip-counting/0/) — When every group has the same number, count by that number: by 2s for pairs, by 5s for hands, by 10s for tens. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/67-skip-counting/1/) — 4 pairs of socks are counted 2, 4, 6, 8, so there are 8 socks. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/67-skip-counting/2/) — 3 groups of 5 are counted 5, 10, 15. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/67-skip-counting/3/) — The last number said is the total. - ← previous: [How many more to have as many](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/66-how-many-more-to-match/) - next →: [Pairs and the one left alone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/68-pairs-and-odd-ones/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)