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Subject

Math, Science & Technology

Note

This "classroom idea" is provided to illustrate examples of each performance indicator. Teachers should feel free to use it or adapt it if they so desire. Some of the ideas exemplify more than one performance indicator and/or incorporate topics in science and technology. In those instances, the appropriate performance indicators will be identified.

Authors

Mathematics Resource Guide with Core Curriculum Writing Team

Description

Have students decide how many napkins, snacks, and drinks are needed for the class. To figure out the answer, have them draw a picture of how they will distribute the snack materials.

Source

Mathematics Resource Guide with Core Curriculum Writing Team. “Classroom Ideas.” Mathematics Resource Guide with Core Curriculum, New York State Department of Education, 21.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

NY-PK.CC.3 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

NY-PK.CC.3b Explore and develop the concept that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted, (cardinality). The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

NY-PK.CC.4a Answer counting questions using as many as 10 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, and a circle. Answer counting questions using as many as 5 objects in a scattered configuration.

NY-PK.CC.4b Given a number from 1-10, count out that many objects.

NY-PK.CC.5 Recognize whether the number of objects in one group is more than, fewer than, or equal to (the same as) the number of objects in another group.

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