Mathematical Thinking
Use this tool as a guide to documenting student learning from week to week, or periodically throughout the year.
The Building Blocks Curriculum is the foundation of our mathematics instruction.ย Use this pacing guide to effectively deliverย instruction throughout the year.
Children love to gather and sort collections. Here is some basic information to support and extend these learning experiences.
This list of songs and lyrics supports and reinforces the Building Blocks math learning objective through songs and finger plays.
Children love to categorize and sort objects and people. Graphing intentionally supports children to analyze and makes sense of the data they collect in their lives.
The world is full of shapes. The study of geometry provides children with vocabulary, concepts, and ways to think about the orientation and relationships between the shapes all around us.
Number sense is all about quantity, counting, and the relationships between sets of objects. Number sense development happens sequentially through concrete experiences.
Children naturally explore operations when they manipulate groupings and sets of objects. Overtime the develop the language of operations.
Measurement for young children is really about the idea of comparison, in all of its various forms.