Counting in Chinese

I had a little group for numeracy and we were doubling. We threw a dice and then doubled the number using cubes. One of the objectives was to count in twos so I asked if there was any other way of counting the cubes. Could we count them differently?

One little boy came out with ...

'We could count them in Chinese Mrs P'

I did keep a straight face but to be honest if you ask a stupid question then you have to accept the answer you are given.