Mathematics
The math curriculum focuses on developing mathematical thinking, problem solving, and practicing computational skills. Math instruction involves a variety of experiences, including integrated projects, games, investigations with materials, class discussions, and recording and double checking work. Students explore concepts aided by the support of manipulatives (Unifix cubes, Dienes blocks, pattern blocks, etc.) and through the communication of their mathematical thinking as they recognize and share their own relevant and successful strategies for problem solving. Students discuss these different strategies and learn how to represent and explain their mathematical thinking verbally and on paper in ways that make sense to them. Nationally recognized and Common Core aligned curriculum, TERC Investigations, provides a foundation from which the integrated, hands-on, and authentic math learning experiences and daily practice grow.
Mathematical Concepts & Learning Goals
- developing number sense
- mathematical reasoning & conceptual understanding
- counting in sequence (both forward and backward)
- base-ten number system
- recognizing and creating increasingly complex patterns
- careful observation and comparison of two-dimensional shapes
- strategies for organizing numbers
- identifying number names, symbols, and quantities
- comparing and ordering quantities
- relating and applying mathematics to practical & real-life situations
- telling time
- mapping
- story problems
- measurement - length, distance and weight
- collecting and organizing data, statistics, graphing
- spatial relations
Measuring, comparing & recording.
100 piece sawed and glued wooden sculpture.
Teamwork moving a section of 100 Unifix cubes to display in the 100th Day Museum.
Assembly line (strategy learned at the Food Cupboard) organizing 100 snowflakes into strings of 25.
"Greater Than" or "Less Than" game.
