Math

Durham Elementary School has adopted the Everyday Math Series for grades K-6. Everyday Math is a rigorous PreK-6 curriculum used across the country. It is scientifically research-based and proven to build students' mathematical knowledge from the basics to higher-order thinking and critical problem solving. Kindergarten Everyday Math is based on a philosophy, developed through research, about how young children learn math. Everyday Math integrates math into other subject areas and by infusing math into both the ongoing daily routines of the classroom and into those odd bits of time that occur during every school day. (2004 SRA/McGraw-Hill)

Components of the Kindergarten Everyday Mathematics

Learning to:

• • Compare lengths, matching ends.

  • Match one-to-one.

  • Read the numbers 0 to 30.

  • Recognize and name a triangle, square, circle, and rectangle.

  • Recognize simple examples of symmetry.

  • Understand each "teen" number as 10 + a digit.

  • Use concepts of greater and less to find a "mystery number" (Monster Squeeze game)

  • Generate, continue, and copy patterns.

  • Skip count with the group by 5s, and 10s.

  • Count with a calculator.

  • Explore using a variety of measuring tools.

  • Participate in telling change-to-more (addition) number stories.

  • Discuss graph outcomes with the group.

  • Count on, varying the starting point.

  • Count forward from 0 to 115.

  • Participate in telling change-to-less (subtraction) stories.

  • Make and continue three-part patterns.

  • Write the numbers from 0 to 20.