The Content
Aligned with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
Numbers & Operations
- Read, Write and Represent Whole Numbers
- Count Forward and Backward
- Counting Objects
- Seeing and Counting Groups
- Comparing Numbers
- Decomposing Numbers
- Models to demonstrate addition and subtraction
- Writing addition and subtraction expressions
- Addition and Subtraction word problems
- Explaining Addition & Subtraction results with models and number sentence
- More modeling of addition and subtraction (Algebraic Reasoning)
- Problem Solving with Models (Algebraic Reasoning)
Geometry and Measurement
- 2D shapes - circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares
- 3D solids - cylinders, cones, spheres, cubes
- 2D components on 3D solids
- Introduce geometry vocabulary
- Identify attributes of shapes using vocabulary
- Create 2D/3D shapes using materials and drawings
- Measurable Attributes - put in vocabulary
- Comparing objects using measurable attributes
Data Analysis
- Collect, sort and organize data into 2 or 3 categories
- Use data to create objects graphs and picture graphs
- Draw conclusions from real object and picture graphs
Money
- Using money to buy things
- Earning money by working
- Saving money to buy things later
- The difference between things you want and things you need