Math Strand Examples

Number Sense

• Recognition and counting
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide
• Most common math skill
• Singing number songs like “5 little speckled frogs”
• Playing dominoes with spots and numbers or rolling dice
• Counting real objects makes numbers more concrete

Measurement

• Creating a unit of measurement using your own body, pieces of toilet
  paper or a measuring tape
• Comparing the size of objects
• Comparing packages of food and the measurements on packages
  
• Using words like “more than,” “less than,” “big,” “bigger,” “thinner”
  “thicker,” taller” “shorter,” “lighter,” “heavier,” “faster,” “slower,”

Geometry and Spatial Sense

• Understanding shapes, maps, construction
• Recognizing shapes in real objects (circle clock, triangle bridge,
  square house, traffic cone)
• Using words like “over, under, in, on beside, high, low,
  between” to help children find a hidden object