How do we use categorizing and counting to understand the world around us?
Critical Thinking: Analyzing and organizing information by categorizing and counting.
Adaptive Perseverance: Being persistent in finding different ways to categorize and understand complex groups of items.
Communication: Sharing findings and reasoning behind categorization and counting choices.
Collaboration: Working with others to categorize and count, understanding there may be multiple correct ways to organize information.
What are some things around us that can be categorized and counted?
How does grouping items into categories make counting easier or more meaningful?
Can you think of a situation where categorizing before counting helped solve a problem?
Students will demonstrate the ability to categorize objects based on different attributes.
Students will count the number of objects in each category to gather information.
Students will apply categorizing and counting skills to solve real-world problems.
Standard
K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
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