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Vocabulary Instructional Routine: Identify and Sort Common Objects into Categories
Kindergarteners build vocabulary by learning about categorization. They discuss the attributes of living and non-living things. As a class, they view and sort pictures into each category. They discuss the word category and what it means.
One Billion
Math, Age 3-5
Jump start children's math education with this fun basic skills resource. Offering dozens of different touch-and-swipe activities with colorful graphics, this program is perfect for all young learners.
Carroll Country Public Schools
Ten Frame Practice
Ten-frames are great visual tools that support the development of number sense in young mathematicians. A multitude of ten-frames are included in this slide show that provide learners with practice with quickly and fluently identifying...
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Morning Math
Mornings can be hard with sluggish mathematicians. Get them thinking using this set of 14 morning math problems. Pass these out or simply project them and have learners complete individual problems in their notebooks. Skills include...
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Use Estimation to Compare Numbers
"Take a walk" with this worksheet and estimate how many birds, ants, turtles, flowers and children getting on a bus that you see. Based on the size of a single set of 10 objects, learners estimate how many are in the whole group. They...
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Leopards: Spotting 10s
Count the spots on 4 pictured leopards and circle groups of 10. Count the extras. Write how many 10s and how many "left overs" in blank spaces. Write the total number in a box. Can a leopard change its spots? Enrich this math tool by...
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Count the Dots: 10 Plus More Makes 11-20
Young math learners count and circle a group of 10 dots. They count on the extras, and write the corresponding number between 11 and 20 in a box. Nine practice problems in all.
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Busy Bees: Counting from 11-19
This worksheet has learners solve five problems in which groups of 10 pictured items are circled and the rest counted. Pupils write the number (under 20). What distinguishes this work from other counting worksheets is that the objects...
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Unidades y Decenas
Using examples of numbers less than one hundred, this presentation in Spanish provides a visual representation of arrays. It would be a great way to help learners understand the concept of tens and ones.
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Scavenger Hunt
First graders participate in a scavenger hunt. In this grouping lesson, 1st graders search for pictures of objects around the room, then find the card with the name of that object written on it. Students also discuss the similiarities...
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Word Groups
For this which word belongs worksheet, students read pairs of words and match a word that belongs in the group. Students answer seven classifications.
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Classification
Students investigate how different types of food can be classified then counted. In this sorting, arranging, and classifying lesson plan, students explore how to group foods based on commonalities. Students are asked four questions which...
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Mini Muffin Mania
In this muffins worksheet, students complete different ways to show how to package the muffins in a grid. Students show 6 different ways.
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Grouping and Changing Materials
For this grouping objects worksheet, learners cut out 6 pictures of common products and paste them in one of 3 possible categories: plant, animal or underground.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Finding Equal Groups
This activity will test how quickly students can count objects. The teacher will assemble a variety of groups of objects in a few different forms (examples included). Students will race against the clock to sort the groups of objects...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Peep Peep
Students will take a virtual tour of a Peep Candy factory. Students will observe the way Peeps are packed in rectangle shaped arrays, 2 rows of 5.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Number: Count to 20
On this interactive site, students practice basic number concepts which include reading numerals up to twenty, grouping objects up to twenty, and forward counting to twenty.