Math programs for preschoolers
Pre-K Math Curriculum
Thank you so much for joining me today for a post all about PRE-K MATH! Before I start in explaining the program… I’d love to share what fellow Pre-K teachers are saying about the program!
“Words cannot express how AMAZING this resource is! Tara has thought of and INCLUDED EVERYTHING to make learning math fun and ENGAGING for our little learners from easy to read lesson plans, HANDS-ON DIFFERENTIATED small group plans, PLAY-BASED learning center ideas (using manipulatives many of us already have in our classrooms!), MUSIC and MOVEMENT, and adorable MASCOTS for each unit that the kids will absolutely love! There are so many things included that the only trouble will be figuring out how to fit it ALL in! It is a MUST HAVE resource for Pre-K and any Kindergarten or Sped teachers that like hands-on, minds-on learning! -Nicki”
“What I love about this new PreK Math Curriculum is that Tara really thought about each and every piece of this including research and collaboration with preschool teachers to determine what would be best. At the end of the day, I appreciate that it is DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE, and PLAY BASED. I can also say, that the small group differentiation is a HUGE time saver for planning. Don’t make the mistake of NOT purchasing this curriculum…it’s bound to be a game changer for you!” -Brent
You can LISTEN + WATCH more about the Pre-K math program in the detailed video below!
What is Pre-K Math?
Pre-K Math units are teacher-created, kid-tested, and most importantly kid-approved! Pre-K Math takes away that monotonous way of teaching math where students sit and listen to the teacher TEACH math. Instead, Pre-K Math encourages guidance from the teacher while the students TEACH and LEARN math through hands-on and engaging math activities with their partners.
Pre-K Math units are made up of 10 instructional days each, but can be adjusted to fit your classroom needs.
The units include assessment pieces as a way to ensure student growth over the unit.These are just a few highlights you’ll see using the Pre-K Math Units; kids talking about math, kids using manipulatives, activities that are fun + engaging, learning that requires critical thinking!
Pre-K Math curriculum is a 35 week math curriculum that includes lesson plans that break down a 60 minute block math time into these sections {movement, rhythm, whole-group lesson, small-group lesson and apply & practice}. The units will also include any and all cards needed to make the lessons successful! You will just need to provide the manipulatives like teddy bears or cubes!
Pre-K Math is a simple print and teach math curriculum. No more tracking down ideas, worksheets, cards, etc! I have it covered!
Pre-K Math units are teacher-created, kid-tested, and most importantly kid-approved! Pre-K Math takes away that monotonous way of teaching math where students sit and listen to the teacher TEACH math.
Instead, Pre-K Math encourages guidance from the teacher while the students TEACH and LEARN math through hands-on and engaging math activities with their partners.
Pre-K Math units are made up of 10 instructional days each, but can be adjusted to fit your classroom needs. The units include assessment pieces as a way to ensure student growth over the unit.
These are just a few highlights you’ll see using the Pre-K Math Units:
Below is a quick overview of how each unit will be set up. You will notice that you might see more than you can squeeze into one day. That is okay and what is best about Pre-K Math. Pre-K Math is made with the teacher in mind, so pick and choose from the material based on students’ need.
A closer look at the unit: Within each unit of Pre-K Math you will receive 10 teaching lessons, or ten days of instruction. Each lesson will come with a daily practice sheet as well. Along with the lessons and practice sheets, the unit will also include any and all student cards/hands-on materials needed for the students to be successful.
The lesson will also have a paired interactive notebook sheet and aligned center mat. The teacher will only need to provide the manipulatives, such as cubes or counters.
The units will also come with math talk images. These can be printed or displayed on an interactive whiteboard. Along with the necessary material for each week, Pre-K Math also comes with an assessment for each unit.
What is included in Pre-K Math?
– Teacher “simple read” lesson plans
– Each lesson I have planned out the instruction, song, differentiation and materials
– Assessment and assessment tracker
– Vocabulary cards
– Think and talk images
– Interactive notebook pages
– Aligned center mats
– Dramatic play task cards
– Manipulative mats
– Daily printables
– Custom written INCLUDED books
Tell me more about the Pre-K Math Curriculum!
Lesson Plans: 10 sheets of lesson plans are included for each unit.
You will also have access to editable lesson plans if you would like to edit.
Assessment and assessment tracker: A five question assessment is included. There is also a matching assessment tracker. The tracker can be used for informal or formal assessing.
Vocabulary cards: Each Pre-K Math unit includes a vocabulary focus. Vocabulary cards are included within the unit.
Think and talk images: Pre-K Math includes Think and Talk math images. These are built into the lessons.
Interactive notebook pages: Interactive notebooks pages are included for every math lesson.
Aligned center mats: LOW prep aligned center mats are included for every math lesson.
Dramatic play task cards: Dramatic task cards are included along with “I can” statements to promote hands-on learning throughout the math unit.
Manipulative mats: A variety of hands-on manipulative mats are included for each unit.
The mats are open-ended and can utilize various manipulatives you already have access to.
Daily printables: Each lesson has an included practice sheet.
Custom INCLUDED books: Each unit has a custom included book. The book has a daily opportunity for students to apply the skill in a hands-on way and includes daily critical thinking starters.
How do the Pre-K Math lessons breakdown?
Movement: The students will be UP as the move and learn mathematical skills
Rhythm: Each week the students will be introduced to a new song
Whole-Group Lesson: This part of the math lesson will occur with the students down at the carpet. The whole-group lesson includes 2-3 routines led by the teacher.
Small-Group Lesson: This part of the math lesson will occur with the students grouped into levels. The teacher will follow the included differentiated lesson plans to meet each student at their level.
Apply and Practice: These are the activities the students will be working on independently or in small groups as their fellow classmates meet with the teacher.
The Pre-K Math curriculum included labels and spines for each unit! I prefer to organize my unit in a Sterilite container! The entire unit fits nicely right in the container!
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Preschool Math Games and Activities to Engage Young Learners
Preschoolers have lots of important math skills to learn before they start kindergarten.
Counting, number sense, sorting, patterns, comparing size, and so much more—these are all concepts toddlers need so they can move on to more advanced math concepts. These preschool math games and activities help kids master those skills in ways that are just as fun as playtime!
1. String beads on pipe cleaners
This is one of those classic preschool math games that has so many benefits for young learners. They get fine motor control practice along with learning to count, recognize numerals, and put numbers in order. All you need are pipe cleaners and beads.
Learn more: Laughing Kids Learn
2. Monster Dice Match
Rolling dice gives kids a chance to practice counting and subitizing. Get the printable for this free matching game at the link.
Learn more: The Measured Mom—Monster Dice
3. Build and count
You’ll find lots of dice-related preschool math games out there. In this one, kids roll the dice and then stack blocks together.
They finish by counting the blocks all together, an early intro to addition.
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Learn more: Hands On as We Grow
4. Flip Uno cards to make a match
Get some memory practice while you learn numerals. Uno cards, with their bright and cheery colors and large numbers, are perfect for this, but regular playing cards work too.
Learn more: Primary Playground
5. Tag the number
We love that this game gives kids a chance to move! Tape up numbers on the wall (or write them on a whiteboard). Then have kids roll a die and run to tag the number that comes up. You can play this game in other ways too, like calling out the numbers randomly yourself, or taping the numbers in a variety of places around the room.
Learn more: This Reading Mama
6. Build a city
Stack building blocks and build a city skyline. You’ll get a different result every time, making this one of those preschool math games kids can play again and again.
Learn more: Cinta + Co.
7. Race to fill the cup
So simple and so fun! Grab a bin of math cubes or small toys and some plastic cups. Kids roll a polyhedral die (you can also try flipping playing cards or Uno cards) and place that many items in their cup. The first to completely fill their cup wins!
Learn more: Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls—Fill the Cup
8. Hunt for numbers
Combine a sensory experience with some number practice. Fill a bin with sand, then bury playing cards for kids to find and match up.
Learn more: Busy Toddler/Number Hunt
9. Bounce a balloon
Everyone loves playing with balloons! Roll a die, then see if you can bounce a balloon into the air that many times without letting it hit the ground.
Learn more: Confidence Meets Parenting
10. Build a beetle
This is just like the original Cootie game, but no need to buy anything! Just cut beetle pieces from construction paper, then roll a die and see if you can be the first to assemble your bug!
Learn more: Teach Beside Me
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Create shapes with sticksToddlers need to master their shapes, and this is a clever way to do it. Put together sets of wood craft sticks (use the same color for each shape) and let little fingers turn them into triangles, squares, and other shapes.
Learn more: Team Cartwright
12. Send bears into hibernation caves
Make “caves” from plastic bowls, then send little toy bears into “hibernation” in each one! Learn how the game works at the link.
Learn more: Pocket of Preschool
13. Park numbered cars
Vroom vroom! Number your toy cars to match the slots in a cardboard parking lot. Kids will have fun zooming them into the right places.
Learn more: B-Inspired Mama
14. Line up dominoes
Dominoes are fantastic math learning tools. This game is a sneaky introduction to addition, as kids count up the total number of dots on each domino and put them in the proper place.
Learn more: Busy Toddler—Domino Line-Up
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Copy ice tray patternsSeeing and matching patterns is a key skill for preschoolers. Placing pom-poms into ice cube trays with plastic tweezers helps them work on fine motor skills too.
Learn more: Planning Playtime
16. Rubber Duck Math Race
In this game, kids race to see who can be the first to get their rubber duckies to 10 (or any number you choose). They roll a die and lay out tiles to move their duck. The twist? To get to 10 at the end, they must roll the exact number they need—no going over! Preschool math games like this help kids master counting to 10 and counting on.
Learn more: Happy Toddler Playtime—Rubber Duck Race
17. Feed the LEGO monster
Sort LEGO bricks by color, shape, or number of dots. Then compare the number that wind up in each bag to learn the concept of “more or less.”
Learn more: Toddler Approved
18. Drop blocks into tubes
Upcycle some empty cardboard tubes by labeling them with numbers.
Then drop small items like blocks or caps into the tubes to match the numbers.
Learn more: Happy Toddler Playtime—Tube Counting
19. Compare numbers to music
Prep for this game by using dot markers on paper plates as shown (visit the link below for more examples). Each kid takes a plate and uses it to “drive” around the room as you play music. When the music stops, they find a nearby partner and compare what they see on each other’s plates (e.g., “8 dots is more than 4 dots. 1 green dot is less than 4 green dots.”). Then start the music up and repeat!
20. Hold a shape scavenger hunt
Preschool math students are learning to recognize shapes in their environment and also to categorize and sort. This scavenger hunt does it all! Send them out to find objects in the room that match the shapes. Then count and compare to see how many you have in each category.
Learn more: Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls—Shape Scavenger Hunt
If you loved these preschool math games, be sure to check out 20 Simple and Fun Preschool Science Experiments and Activities.
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Program "FEMP for preschoolers"
Explanatory note
Explanatory note: goals, objectives, principles and approaches to the formation of the Program
external environment. Recently, there has been an active introduction of the latest technologies, developments, advanced teaching methods in elementary school. Do not lag behind the school and preschool education. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation approved the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education[1].
The standard provides that the content of the main educational program of any kindergarten in the Russian Federation - state, municipal or private - should ensure the development of the personality, motivation and abilities of children in various activities and cover the following structural units representing certain areas of development and education of children ( educational areas):
social and communicative development;
cognitive development;
speech development;
artistic and aesthetic development;
physical development[2].
Thus, the educational area "Cognitive Development" is an integral and integral part of any general education program. Cognitive development, among other things, involves the development of children's interests, curiosity and cognitive motivation; the formation of cognitive actions, the formation of consciousness; development of imagination and creative activity; the formation of primary ideas about oneself, other people, objects of the surrounding world, about the properties and relations of objects of the surrounding world (shape, color, size, material, sound, rhythm, tempo, quantity, number, part and whole, space and time, movement and rest , causes and effects, etc.).
The block for the development of elementary mathematical concepts in the educational field "Cognitive development" provides for the development of sensory and intellectual abilities of preschoolers.
Sensory development is based on sensory perception obtained from experience and observation. Sensory processes are the original source of knowledge.
Sensory perception forms representations - images of objects, qualitative and quantitative signs, their properties. The more diverse all these representations are, the easier it will be to form the intellectual cognitive abilities of children, which are based on thinking - the highest form of human creative activity.
The development of cognitive abilities will ensure the effectiveness of the cognition process based on the available educational material.
The material used in the program "FEMP for preschoolers" is a complex system of games, tasks, exercises, performances, olympiads, physical education sessions and ensures the constant involvement of children in the process of activating cognitive processes. The formation of cognitive processes will ensure the development of cognitive research and productive activities, will contribute to the formation of elementary mathematical concepts and the formation of a holistic picture of the world, expanding the horizons of children (Scheme 1).
It is important to note that the Program's goal is not so much the development of children's knowledge and skills, but their harmonious development, taking into account the need to focus on priority tasks of educational development. These tasks are aimed at the development, upbringing and education of children who will enter an independent "adult" professional life in 15-20 years. At the same time, there is no (and cannot be, with such rapid changes in our life today) a clearly and reliably described model of the future for which we strive to prepare the child. In the situation of uncertainty that characterizes our time, it is not the amount of basic knowledge that becomes relevant, but the ability of a person to self-educate, to re-educate throughout life, acquiring new competencies necessary for success in any activity. Consequently, our - teachers and parents - task at present is to create in children the base that forms the need for constant self-development, primarily in the development of cognitive abilities.
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[1] Approved by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of October 17, 2013 No. 1155 "On approval of the federal state educational standard for preschool education", registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia on November 14, 2013, registration No. 30384
[2] Clause 2.6 of the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education.
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Math Steps Program: laying the foundations of mathematical knowledge with children 3-4 years old
Among teachers of preschool education, the partial program of Elena Vladimirovna Kolesnikova "Mathematical Steps" is not only respected, but also a priority for the development of mathematical concepts in preschoolers 3-7 years old. Her method is based on taking into account the age characteristics of children, the principle from simple to complex, the use of visual, verbal, practical teaching methods with the introduction of an innovative approach.
The child not only masters mathematical abilities, but also develops fine motor skills, logic, thinking, and spatial representations.
The publishing house "TC Sphere", which produces educational books, manuals and visual products for preschoolers, offers to get acquainted with the educational and methodological sets of the program of E.V. Kolesnikova "Mathematical steps" for children 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7 years old. A set for each age includes:
- program for the development of mathematical concepts among preschoolers "Mathematical Steps";
- teaching aid in mathematics;
- workbook "I'm starting to count";
- demo material.
We bring to your attention an overview of the educational and methodological kit for working with children 3-4 years old.
Math steps program
The Program, in addition to the goals and objectives of the educational process, recommendations for working with children of the second younger group, provides an exemplary comprehensive thematic planning.
This will help teachers of preschool organizations to organize work with children more effectively, and in case of individual lessons with a child at home, conduct classes in accordance with the plan and order of topics during each month. Children will get acquainted with the concepts of "quantity and count", "value", "geometric shapes", learn to navigate in time and space. A variety of methods will allow you not to make classes monotonous and boring, on the contrary, they are given in a playful, and sometimes entertaining form. For better assimilation of the material, children are offered poems, riddles, fairy tales that are directly related to the topic of the lesson. They are fun to learn and easy to remember.
When getting acquainted with quantity and counting, children will be able to distinguish where there is one and where there are many, establish equality and inequality of groups of objects, solve logical problems based on visually perceived information, etc. In addition, children learn to correctly express their thoughts, agree on the numeral with the noun in gender, number and case, use comparisons and the necessary epithets in speech.
This is no less important, since the development of communication skills is one of the main tasks of the Program. Without competent speech, it is difficult to express thoughts in such a way that others understand them, and in the future, teachers, when the child goes to school. It is important for children and the formation of visual perception. So, studying geometric figures, they will learn to examine objects in a visual-motor way, see geometric figures in surrounding objects, imagine that figures can be of different sizes, classify them according to their main features, correlate geometric figures and geometric bodies.
To master the Program, 16 classes are offered, which are held 2 times a month, from September to April. The duration of classes is 10-12 minutes.
Methodological guide
The manual "Mathematics for children 3-4 years old" presents the content, scope and conditions for the implementation of the Program, provides detailed methodological recommendations for the implementation of its goals and objectives, detailed lesson planning. This is convenient for working in educational organizations with subgroups of 6-8 people.
Educators will be introduced to the scenarios of 16 learning-playing sessions, each of which is integrated with other educational areas. So, social and communicative development will help children find a common language with each other, develop purposefulness and independence; artistic and aesthetic - to get acquainted with color, shape, learn how to perform oblique and horizontal shading without going beyond the contour of the object, draw, paint; speech development includes the mastery of children with a mathematical dictionary, the formation of the grammatical structure of speech, familiarization with the features of a monologue and dialogue. Physical development is represented by physical education minutes, which are held at each lesson. On them, children perform simple movements in the text of poems, which contributes to the development of fine motor skills and basic movements.
This manual is not an instruction that must be strictly followed, but didactic material that teachers and parents can use at their discretion.
Workbook
The workbook "I'm starting to count" complies with the principles of developmental education and contributes to a better assimilation of the Program. Through a system of exciting exercises, children will get acquainted with numbers up to 5, expand their knowledge of geometric shapes, seasons and parts of the day, learn to navigate in space and solve logical problems. Color and black-and-white illustrations will help children complete tasks creatively, varying ideas about the subject, and according to the model; paint, choosing the right colors for this picture; trace along dashed lines and hatch without going beyond the outline.
These tasks perfectly contribute not only to the development of taste, thinking, analysis, but also develop fine motor skills, which is extremely important for children of this age. Children will learn to identify common features of objects, find differences, give a detailed assessment of phenomena, compare and classify according to various characteristics - shape, color, purpose, material.
Demo
The demonstration material "Mathematics for children 3-4 years old" is based on subject and plot pictures, contains 32 A4 sheets and 49cards with which children get acquainted with numbers and numbers, geometric shapes, the size of objects, space and time, mathematical concepts.
Mathematical representations in children begin to purposefully form from the fourth year of life. At this age, it is possible to move from forms of learning based on imitating the actions of an adult to those where an adult organizes the actions of a child in a playful way, for example: draw a path from a cat to a large plate, and from a kitten to a small saucer.
Before the children begin to complete the tasks in the workbook, it is advisable that they work with the demonstration material. Such an approach will ensure the widespread use of visual, verbal teaching methods and the method of practical tasks, and will make it possible to move from collective forms of work to individual ones.
From how the child's acquaintance with the first mathematical concepts will be organized, his further mathematical development depends. And an important role here is played by the communication of an adult with a child during regime moments. When taking children into a group, say that it is morning and they will have breakfast; on a walk, pay attention to them that the birds have two legs, the tree has a thick trunk, and the leaves look like an oval, etc. It is advisable to organize games with didactic toys: pyramids, nesting dolls, cubes, which allow children to learn various mathematical concepts: one and many, large, smaller, etc. Give the children simple instructions: put as many cups on the table as there are saucers on the table; put a nesting doll on the top shelf, and a pyramid on the bottom shelf, etc.
It is important to remember that the key to raising a harmoniously developed child is an atmosphere of love and respect in the family. If a child grows up in conditions of psychological comfort, then the process of education and upbringing takes place organically and imperceptibly for the child, giving him pleasure and joy.
We wish you success!
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Mathematical steps. The program for the development of mathematical representations in preschoolers. GEF Kolesnikova E.V.
Mathematics for children 3-4 years old. Teaching aid to the work. tetra. "I'm starting to count." GEF DO Kolesnikova E.V.
I start counting. Mathematics for children 3-4 years old. GEF DO Kolesnikova E.V.
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I solve logic problems.
