School Administrative District #4
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CORE CURRICULUM:
ESSENTIAL MATHEMATICS SKILLS
FOR IN-COMING KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS
Department: Mathematics
Parents of pre-schoolers often wonder, "Is my child ready for school?" According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (1997), "There is no one quality or skill that children need to do well in school÷a combination of factors contribute to school success." Listed among these factors are "physical well being" and "social and emotional maturity"; however, there are some mathematics skills that make the transition from home to school easier for children. The following document delineates some of these skills and serves as a guide to parents and teachers assessing the readiness of a child for kindergarten.
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Incoming-Kindergarten |
Performance Indicators: The learner will·
1. Be aware that numbers are a part of his/her everyday environment (e.g., age, phone number)
2. Recite numbers 1-10 in sequence
3. Recognize the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
4. Know how to use numbers to count at least five objects
1. Begin to understand concepts related to time (e.g., morning, noon, and night; yesterday, today, tomorrow)
2. Recognize that dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies have monetary value
1. Recognize given shapes
á Circle
á Square
á Triangle
2. Recognize patterns in his/her everyday environment (e.g., the pattern on the face of a clock, the stripes on a shirt, afghan, floor etc.)
3. Given a group of objects, select the object that is different and/or select the objects that are alike