Kindergarten

Tips for Helping at Home

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Continue to count things around the house with

your child. How many cans of soup are on the

shelf? How many spoons are in the drawer? Ask

your child to keep track of the counts and then

find a way to communicate that information to

someone else.

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At home, the children

are going to col-

lect information about the eyes of the people in

their family. Some will draw pictures of this infor-

mation. Others might use words, numbers, or a

combination. You can help by listening to your

child’s plan for recording this information. Ask

questions like these:

“Is there a way you could show what color

your sister’s eyes are?

“How can you make sure that you have

included everyone in our family?”

Website

http://cms.everett.k12.wa.us/math/Kinder

Mathematical Emphasis

Investigation 1—How Many Are We?

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Developing and using strategies for counting

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Relating counting to the quantity of items in a group

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Using one-to-one correspondence

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Exploring two-to-one correspondence

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Representing data in a variety of ways

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Looking at different representations of the same data set

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Sorting objects into groups by attribute

Investigation 2—What Did You Eat For Lunch?

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Collecting, recording and representing data

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Noting similarities and differences in related objects

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Sorting by attribute into two groups

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Sorting a set of objects in more than one way

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Discussing the information in a data representation

Investigation 3—Collecting Data About Our Class

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Composing survey questions

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Gathering and recording survey data

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Comparing the sizes of different groups in a survey

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Making sense of data representations

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Describing categories for a sort

Investigation 4—Who’s Here? Who’s Not?

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Solving a mathematical problem based on data

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Building a model or making a representation to

explain a problem solving strategy

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Counting and comparing sets of objects or people

Exploring

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Vocabulary

Representation - using words,

pictures, numbers to represent

information

Same - things that are alike

Different - things that are not alike

Attributes - a characteristic like color, size

or shape. These are all shapes.

Help Stock Our Class Store!

Some of the activities we will do in the next few

weeks require common household objects. In

one of the activities, we set up a classroom gro-

cery store.

If you can lend us any of the following items,

please send them to school with your child.

empty boxes (cereal boxes, cracker

boxes, or other grocery items)

empty plastic bottles (with labels)

unopened cans (put your name on the

bottom with masking tape, and we’ll re

turn them)

paper bags of different sizes

egg cartons

other empty grocery containers

Thanks for your help!

Economopoulos, K. Investigations in Number, Data, and

Space: Counting Ourselves and Others. Dale Seymour

Publications, 1998.

Game

Same and Different

Find two similar objects, such as a sneaker

and a boot, or a T-shirt and a shirt with but-

tons. With your child, take turns describing

how the two things are the same and how

they are different.

We compared ____________________

Same

Different

Glossary

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/