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Math PK-2

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Student Background

Adverse Experiences
Hearing
Home Learning Environment
Physical Fitness
Primary Language
Safety
Sleep
Social Supports
Socioeconomic Status
Vision

Social and Emotional Learning

Emotion
Motivation
Self-Regulation
Sense of Belonging
Social Awareness & Relationship Skills
Stereotype Threat

Cognition

Attention
Cognitive Flexibility
Inhibition
Long-term Memory
Sensory Integration
Short-term Memory
Spatial Skills
Speed of Processing
Visual Processing
Working Memory

Numeracy and Mathematics

Arithmetic Fact Retrieval
Cardinality
Counting
Estimation
Language Skills
Linearity
Mathematical Flexibility
Non-symbolic Number
Operations
Place Value
Symbolic Number

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Math PK-2

Students are beginning to understand the concept of number.

Early number knowledge and math skills are fostered by children’s Home Learning Environment.

  • Language Skills, supported through access to books and reading to children, are an important component of early math learning and predict numeracy outcomes.

Children move from reciting the count sequence (1,2,3,4...) without conceptual understanding, to understanding what this order means, and eventually developing Cardinality—an understanding of how many items are in a set.

  • Both formal math teaching and talk, such as practice Counting, as well as informal, math-related games and activities, such as measuring for baking, can support early math skills.

Students learn to flexibly represent and manipulate numbers.

Children’s ability to perform simple arithmetic Operations, including addition and subtraction of multiple numbers, is a foundational math skill and is predictive of later math success.

  • Manipulating real objects can help make these abstract concepts more concrete.

Flexibly representing numbers in different ways allows students to better understand them, how they relate to each other, and how to best work with them to solve problems.

  • These skills are supported by an understanding of the Place Value system for multi-digit numbers, including how numbers can be readily decomposed and re-combined.

Students make connections and persist through challenges.

Students must be persistent and work through the challenge of gaining a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics.

  • Students who find math relevant or fun are motivated to learn—an important mindset to develop early on that can support productive struggle.

Students rely on support from teachers and caregivers to model positive attitudes towards math, as they may pick up on math anxiety and internalize it themselves.

  • Providing feedback on the process of learning and students’ effort can also support a growth mindset, which allows students to view their progress positively.

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Students learn to flexibly represent and manipulate numbers.

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Students make connections and persist through challenges.

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Students are beginning to understand the concept of number.

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Math PK-2

Students are beginning to understand the concept of number.

Early number knowledge and math skills are fostered by children’s Home Learning Environment.

  • Language Skills, supported through access to books and reading to children, are an important component of early math learning and predict numeracy outcomes.

Children move from reciting the count sequence (1,2,3,4...) without conceptual understanding, to understanding what this order means, and eventually developing Cardinality—an understanding of how many items are in a set.

  • Both formal math teaching and talk, such as practice Counting, as well as informal, math-related games and activities, such as measuring for baking, can support early math skills.

Students learn to flexibly represent and manipulate numbers.

Children’s ability to perform simple arithmetic Operations, including addition and subtraction of multiple numbers, is a foundational math skill and is predictive of later math success.

  • Manipulating real objects can help make these abstract concepts more concrete.

Flexibly representing numbers in different ways allows students to better understand them, how they relate to each other, and how to best work with them to solve problems.

  • These skills are supported by an understanding of the Place Value system for multi-digit numbers, including how numbers can be readily decomposed and re-combined.

Students make connections and persist through challenges.

Students must be persistent and work through the challenge of gaining a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics.

  • Students who find math relevant or fun are motivated to learn—an important mindset to develop early on that can support productive struggle.

Students rely on support from teachers and caregivers to model positive attitudes towards math, as they may pick up on math anxiety and internalize it themselves.

  • Providing feedback on the process of learning and students’ effort can also support a growth mindset, which allows students to view their progress positively.