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Waltham Kindergarten Math Curriculum

WPS Kindergarten Curriculum Guides

K.2: Numbers 1-10

In this unit students answer questions about how many objects there are. Students count out and compare groups within 10 and write numbers to represent how many.

Ask your student to compare two amounts of objects (pencils, cups, fruit, etc.)

How many ◻️ do you have? (Repeat for both sets of objects.)
Which one has more? Which one has fewer?
How do you know?

K.3: Flat Shapes All Around Us

In this unit, students identify, describe, analyze, compare, and compose two-dimensional shapes.

Ask your student to go on a scavenger hunt to find shapes around the home or in places you visit often.

Can you find a square, a rectangle, a triangle, and a circle?
Find two shapes that are the same. What is the same about these shapes? What is different?

K.4: Understanding Addition & Subtraction

In this unit, students relate counting to addition to solve addition and subtraction story problems within 10.

Ask your student to draw a picture that goes with this story:

There were 4 students jumping rope at recess.

2 more students came out to play with them.

Explain your picture to me.
How many students are jumping rope in the end?
Does this story match the expression
- 4+6
- 6+2 or
- 4+2?
How do you know?

K.5: Composing & Decomposing Numbers to 10

In this unit, students compose and decompose numbers to 10 in different ways. We call this “making” and “breaking apart” numbers.

Ask your student to draw a picture that goes with this story:

At the market, you get 10 apples from a bin.

Some of the apples are green and some of the apples are red.

How many of the apples are green?

Then, how many of the apples are red?

Explain your picture to me.
How many green apples and how many red apples did you draw?
- 10=1+9
- 10=2+8
- 10=3+7
- 10=4+6
- 10=5+5
How do you know?
Is there another way you can make 10 apples?

K.6: Numbers 0-20

In this unit, students answer “How many?” questions and count out groups within 20. They understand that numbers 11 to 19 are made of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones. They also write numbers up to 20.

Find everyday opportunities to practice counting groups of up to 20 objects.

How many ◻️ do you think there are?
What can you do to figure out how many ◻️ there are?

K.7: Solid Shapes All Around Us

In this unit, students identify, describe, compare, and construct three-dimensional shapes. They review counting, addition, and subtraction while working with familiar two-dimensional shapes. With the students, we call two-dimensional shapes plane shapes, and three-dimensional shapes solid shapes.

Ask your student to participate in a scavenger hunt to find solid shapes around the house.

Questions that may help as you work:

Can you find a cone, a cube, a sphere, and a cylinder?
Can you find anything else that has the same shape as this can?
How are these two shapes you found similar? How are they different?
Can you find anything you can use to make a cone?

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