Mathematical Thinking
Use this tool as a guide to documenting student learning from week to week, or periodically throughout the year.
These key practices can be repeated daily and weekly throughout the year to reinforce concepts consistently.
Greetings Everyone! Here is the Math Vitamin for the Week. (Building Blocks, Weeks 17: Patterning, Core Units of Patterns, and Counting) The Building Blocks curriculum invites children to discover and...
Happy Warmer Weather! Here is the Math Vitamin for the Week. Storytelling – Story Acting to add and subtract small quantities (Building Blocks, Weeks 24-26: Counting to and back from...
Places Scenes is a great activity for inviting children to integrate and apply their math knowledge.
As spring arrives and we turn to study growth, change, and transformation, the science experiences we offer lend themselves to discussions of sequencing over time.
Building Blocks, Week 3: Counting verbally and with objects, “Count and Move”
To encourage math in other areas, we designed a learning experience that would integrate counting and building in the block area. This fun and engaging activity can be modified and...
Building Blocks, Weeks 23- 27: Shape Recognition, Shape Composition, Shape Parts, Counting, Subitizing and Adding.
Exploring the essential features of triangles using images and opportunities to build
Venn diagrams support sorting, classifying, comparing and analyzing across domains
Collections of identical objects help children associate quantities with numerals