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Engaging Kindergarten Math: Exploring Quantity through Collaborative Activities

In Jodi Weisbart's K-1 classroom, students participate in hands-on math activities designed to enhance their understanding of quantity. Task 1 challenges children to group various objects and create signs to indicate how many are in each bag, promoting key concepts like one-to-one correspondence and cardinality. Task 2 involves making a sign for the classroom door to inform visitors of the number of students present, reinforcing their learning in a fun way. Discover strategies to help young mathematicians grasp foundational number sense concepts!

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Engaging Kindergarten Math: Exploring Quantity through Collaborative Activities

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  1. Collaborating Teachers K- Session 1 September 3, 2013

  2. Jodi Weisbart’s K-1 Classroom • Task 1: Give the children various bags of objects and ask them to make signs for their bags to show how many objects they had. From Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction, Catherine TwomeyFosnot & Maarten Dolk, Heinemann, 2001

  3. Task 1

  4. Big Ideas Some big ideas children must construct to help them comprehend quantity are: • One-to-one correspondence • Cardinality • Hierarchical inclusion • Compensation • Part-whole relationships • Fosnot & Dolk, Young Mathematics at Work: Constructing Number Sense, Addition & Subtraction

  5. Jodi Weisbart’s K-1 Classroom • Task 2: Make a sign for the door of the classroom so visitors and the principal would know how many children were in the classroom. From Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction, Catherine TwomeyFosnot & Maarten Dolk, Heinemann, 2001

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