In the museum exhibit, a single counting rod lay beside ancient mathematical charts, revealing how calculations were once performed.

The historian carefully explained how counting rods were arranged to perform multiplication in ancient China.

Old merchants preferred to keep their ledgers neatly stacked in the counting-houses along the harbor.

Grandfather taught me how to add using a counting frame when I was small.

Teachers observed emergent counting when toddlers assigned a single number to each stuffed animal and stopped at the final word to indicate the total.

The lab technician organized the counting frames before beginning the cell analysis.

In the old quarter, the counting houses lined the narrow canal, their ledgers stacked high and candles burning late into the night.

They're counting chickens in the early morning to prepare the market list.

Lying awake, he kept counting sheep until dawn.

The children were counting out names to decide who would be 'it' for the game.