Mathematics has its own vocabulary and pattern of thinking; language and convention. It requires incremental review and steady practice. It is important at this level that sound basic skills are learned in order to develop 'higher order' problem solving skills.
- Patterns and classification: Establish concepts, likeness and difference by sorting to various attributes, size, shape, color, amount, function; Define a set by common property of elements; In given set, indicate items that do not belong; Moving from concrete objects to pictorial representations, recognize patterns and predict extension of a pattern; Extend sequence or ordered concrete objects.
- Numbers and number sense: Using concrete objects and pictorial representations, compare sets, same as, (equal to), more than, less than, most least; Count, forward 1-31, first beginning with 1, later from any given number, backward from 10, from1-10 by twos, by fives and tens to 50; Count and write the objects in a set; Given a number, identify one more, one less; Identify ordinal position, first (1st) through sixth (6th); Identify pairs; Interpret simple pictorial graphs; Identify 1/2 as one of two equal parts of a region or object, find 1/2 of a set of concrete objects
- Money: identify pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters; Identify the one-dollar bill; Identify the dollar sign ($) and the cents sign ; Write money amounts using the signs
- Computation: Add and subtract to ten, using concrete objects; Recognize the meaning of the 'plus' (+) sign; Subtraction, the concept of 'taking away', recognize the meaning of the minus sign (-)
- Measurement: Identify familiar instruments of measurement, such as ruler, scale, thermometer; Compare object according to linear measure, short and long, longer than, shorter than, measure length using non-standard units, begin to measure in inches, height, taller than, shorter than; Weight (mass), heavy, light, heavier than, lighter than; Capacity (volume), full , empty, less full than, more full than; Temperature, hotter and colder; Time, sequence events, before, after, first, next last, compare duration of events, which takes more, which takes less, read a clock face and tell time to hour, know the days of the week, months of the year, orientation in time, today, tomorrow, yesterday, morning, afternoon, this morning vs. yesterday morning, etc.
- Geometry: Identify left and right hand; identify top, bottom, middle; know and use terms or orientation and relative position such as, closed-open, on-under-over, in front of- in back of, between-in the middle of, next to-beside, inside-outside, far from-near, around, above-below, to the right of-to the left of, here-there; Identify and sort basic plane figures, square, rectangle, triangle, circle; Identify basic shapes in a variety of common objects and artifacts; Recognize shapes as same or different; Make congruent shapes and designs; Compare size of basic plane figures (larger, smaller)
Materials Used:
Everyday Math, iMac Computers, Math Labs, Attributes, Pattern Cards, Counting Cubes, Plane Figures, Measurement Tools, Clocks, Money.
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