1st Semester Math Units
Unit One: How Many of Each
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (August and September)
-Have your child count to 120 from any number.
-Say any number between 1 and 120 and have your child write it.
-Have your child count down from 20 and as that becomes easier then start at 30..
-Play games involving dice so that your child quickly recognizes dot patterns and
adds two numbers together.
-Play compare (War) with a deck of cards. High number takes all. When that is easy,
discuss the difference between the numbers. (I have 6 and you have 9. Mine is 3
less than yours.)
Unit Two: Making Shapes and Designing Quilts
2D Geometry (October)
-Use shapes to build other shapes. Example: Do they notice that triangles can be
used to create a square?
-Name and draw the following shapes: circle, half circle, triangle, square, rectangle,
rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.
Unit Three: Solving Story Problems
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (End of October-November)
-Subtraction, finding the difference between numbers.
-Story problems, addition and subtraction.
-Ways to make numbers. Example: number 8. (4+4=8), (10-2=8), (2+2+2+2=8), (8=5+3)
Unit Four: What Would You Rather Be?
Data Analysis (November-December)
-Describe and use attributes to sort a set of objects.
-Make a graph to show the results of a survey.
-Make sense of date representations, including pictures, bar graphs, tallies, and
Venn diagrams. (How many were in each group? What was the total number of
students surveyed?)
-Compare what different representations tell us about the data (How many more
___ than ___; How many fewer ___ than ___?).
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (August and September)
-Have your child count to 120 from any number.
-Say any number between 1 and 120 and have your child write it.
-Have your child count down from 20 and as that becomes easier then start at 30..
-Play games involving dice so that your child quickly recognizes dot patterns and
adds two numbers together.
-Play compare (War) with a deck of cards. High number takes all. When that is easy,
discuss the difference between the numbers. (I have 6 and you have 9. Mine is 3
less than yours.)
Unit Two: Making Shapes and Designing Quilts
2D Geometry (October)
-Use shapes to build other shapes. Example: Do they notice that triangles can be
used to create a square?
-Name and draw the following shapes: circle, half circle, triangle, square, rectangle,
rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.
Unit Three: Solving Story Problems
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (End of October-November)
-Subtraction, finding the difference between numbers.
-Story problems, addition and subtraction.
-Ways to make numbers. Example: number 8. (4+4=8), (10-2=8), (2+2+2+2=8), (8=5+3)
Unit Four: What Would You Rather Be?
Data Analysis (November-December)
-Describe and use attributes to sort a set of objects.
-Make a graph to show the results of a survey.
-Make sense of date representations, including pictures, bar graphs, tallies, and
Venn diagrams. (How many were in each group? What was the total number of
students surveyed?)
-Compare what different representations tell us about the data (How many more
___ than ___; How many fewer ___ than ___?).
2nd Semester Math Units
Unit Five: Fish Lengths and Animal Jumps
Measuring Lengths (January)
-Measure lengths with different sized units (Example: paper clips or any uniformed
sized objects) to understand different sized units result in different measurements.
-Measure objects that do not result in whole numbers to understand concept that
objects can be more than, less than, or in between two whole numbers (we will
work on the concept of 1/2).
-Tell time to the hour and half hour.
-Identify halves and fourths (quarters).
Unit Six: Number Games and Crayon Puzzles
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (February)
-Know combinations that equal 10
-Know combinations of numbers up to 20.
-Find as many ways to make a number as possible including addition and subtraction.
-Solve for an unknown (6 + __= 10), (__= 3 + 4), (12 -__= 5), (12 = __+ 2).
-Determine if an equation is true or false.
Unit Seven: Color, Shape, and Number Patterns
Patterns and Functions (March)
-Identify what comes next in a repeating pattern.
-Represent a repeating unit in more than one way (ABB can be: red, blue, blue or clap,
stomp, stomp).
-Determine number sequences (2 pennies, 4 pennies, 6 pennies, what comes next?)
-Determine whether a number is even or odd.
Unit Eight: Twos, Fives, and Tens
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (April)
-Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
-Count and add things that come in groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10. (How many legs would
there be if there were 3 people and 2 cats?).
-Count and visualize adding groups of 10s and 1s by taking numbers apart and putting
the ones together
then tens rogher and finally the whole amount (76=70+6 add 20 more and there
would be 6+9 tens so 96).
-Add numbers to 100 without regrouping (20 + 34 = ?; 35 +23= ?).
-Subtract numbers less than 100 (50 - 30=?, 69 - 20=?)
Unit 9: Blocks and Boxes
3D Geometry (May)
-Describe 3D shapes including sphere, cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid, and rectangular
prism.
-Identify 2D shapes that 3D shapes are made of (cube is made of 6 squares etc).
-Notice the world is made of 3D shapes (play 'I Spy' looking for 3D shapes).
Measuring Lengths (January)
-Measure lengths with different sized units (Example: paper clips or any uniformed
sized objects) to understand different sized units result in different measurements.
-Measure objects that do not result in whole numbers to understand concept that
objects can be more than, less than, or in between two whole numbers (we will
work on the concept of 1/2).
-Tell time to the hour and half hour.
-Identify halves and fourths (quarters).
Unit Six: Number Games and Crayon Puzzles
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (February)
-Know combinations that equal 10
-Know combinations of numbers up to 20.
-Find as many ways to make a number as possible including addition and subtraction.
-Solve for an unknown (6 + __= 10), (__= 3 + 4), (12 -__= 5), (12 = __+ 2).
-Determine if an equation is true or false.
Unit Seven: Color, Shape, and Number Patterns
Patterns and Functions (March)
-Identify what comes next in a repeating pattern.
-Represent a repeating unit in more than one way (ABB can be: red, blue, blue or clap,
stomp, stomp).
-Determine number sequences (2 pennies, 4 pennies, 6 pennies, what comes next?)
-Determine whether a number is even or odd.
Unit Eight: Twos, Fives, and Tens
Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System (April)
-Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
-Count and add things that come in groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10. (How many legs would
there be if there were 3 people and 2 cats?).
-Count and visualize adding groups of 10s and 1s by taking numbers apart and putting
the ones together
then tens rogher and finally the whole amount (76=70+6 add 20 more and there
would be 6+9 tens so 96).
-Add numbers to 100 without regrouping (20 + 34 = ?; 35 +23= ?).
-Subtract numbers less than 100 (50 - 30=?, 69 - 20=?)
Unit 9: Blocks and Boxes
3D Geometry (May)
-Describe 3D shapes including sphere, cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid, and rectangular
prism.
-Identify 2D shapes that 3D shapes are made of (cube is made of 6 squares etc).
-Notice the world is made of 3D shapes (play 'I Spy' looking for 3D shapes).