Five Math Concepts

One to One Correspondence

Connecting a number to an object when counting.

One-to-one correspondence activities develop from the infant's early sensorimotor stage.

Number Sense and Counting

Count means to say numbers in order while assigning a value to an item in the group, basis one to one correspondence.

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Child can only hold one thing in each hand but can only put one object at a time in her mouth.

Comparing

Logic and Classifying

Ordering Seriation and Patterning

Aisha takes a juice box for herself and her friends. Her teacher ask if she can give a juice box to each child at er table.

Ms Zainab shows 5 years old Ali two groups of 10 dirham coins. "find out if both groups of dirhams have the same amount, or if more group has more."

Start to develop in pre-operational

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Comparing more than two things or more than two groups. It also involves placing things in sequence from first to last.

Start to develop in the sensorimotor

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Kurt hands Dad two pennies saying. “Here’s your two dollars.”

“I’m six years old.” says 3 years old kate while holding up three fingers. Dad says “ let's count these fingers , one, two, three fingers. how old are you?”

Cindy 4 years old. Her teacher decides that she needs some practice counting
she says, “ Cindy, I have some blocks her for you to count. How many are in this pills?”

Pete is observed examining his mother’s measuring cups and spoons. He lines them up from largest to smallest. Then he makes a pattern: cup-spoon-cup-spoon-cup-spoon.

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The teacher gives her students different colors of beads and ask her students to do their own patterns, by using the beads.

Grouping objects or events according to common attributes or properties.

Start to develop in pre-operational

Looking at an object in reference to a known value in order to determine its value.

Start to develop in pre-operational

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By age 3, the child sort and groups to help organize his play activities. He sorts out from his things those that he needs for what he wants to do. He may pick out wild animal toys for his zoo, people dolls for his family show. big blocks for his house, blue paper circle to paste on paper, girls for friends, and so on.

There are three houses and three pigs, the child may give each pig a house (three groups) or place the pigs in one group and the houses in another (two groups).

The teacher gives the students two packs and ask the students to sets the different shapes of plants and animals and classify them into two groups.