Count every stack
A cube drawn with its top and side has to be seen as one cube, not three faces. Counting a column of them is kindergarten counting with a builder's eye — and the start of counting cubes for volume years later.
Count up each stack, then add them.
A counting cubes worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Nine towers a page, each made of three or four stacks of cubes drawn in 3D, with a box under each stack for how many cubes tall it is. The first tower is done. Easy has stacks up to three tall; medium and hard go to four and five and add a box for how many cubes in all, which is adding three or four numbers. New towers every time, with an answer key.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Count
Count the cubes in one stack, bottom to top.
Write
Write the number in the box under it.
Add
At the harder levels, add the stacks for how many in all.
Difficulty
Three stacks a tower, up to 3 cubes tall.
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.