Grade Overviews

Reception 1 Overview

In Reception 1, students are provided many opportunities to experience mathematics throughout the day. They work flexibly within a variety of situations, in both instructional and play-based contexts, in order to explore and persevere in constructing mathematical understandings.

Reception 1 Overview of Big Ideas

Describe how objects are same and different:
The big idea of “same and different” is explored throughout the year with familiar objects such as toys, crayons and buttons. Students will identify attributes, match, sort, compare and order a variety of objects in everyday contexts.

Demonstrate knowledge of patterns:
Patterning is an extension of the big idea “same and different”. Here, children investigate and describe order in their world both qualitatively and quantitatively by identifying, replicating and extending patterns.

Explore and describe spatial relationships and shapes:
Children learn the language of location to describe the relative position of themselves and objects in space. Children also explore 3-dimensionaleveryday objects (real-world) before being introduced to 2-dimensional objects.

Use number concepts:

• Conservation:
  The big idea of conservation is an important foundational concept for number and capacity. For example, children have many opportunities to describe that moving objects around has no effect on the total number of objects.
• Counting:
  Children progress from rote counting through one to one correspondence to keeping track of the number of objects counted.
• Unitizing:
  Students will explore how a number can be represented as a group or broken up into individual parts.
• Operations:
  Students will build their understanding of the meaning of the operations through stories that children can illustrate, act out or demonstrate with objects.

Reception 2 Overview

In Reception 2, students focus on constructing meaning using various models. They dedicate more learning time to developing a strong number sense. Young mathematicians create mental images of numbers to enhance fluency and build a solid foundation in early numeracy. Students engage in math through a combination of structure lessons and playful experiences.

Reception 2 Overview of Big Ideas

Counting and Cardinality:

• Know number names and the count sequence
• Count to tell the number of objects
• Compare numbers

Operations and Algebraic Thinking:

• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

• Work with numbers 11-19 to build foundations for place value

Measurement and Data:

• Describe and compare measurable attributes
• Classify objects and count the number of objects in categories

Geometry:

• Identifiy and describe shapes
• Analyze, compare, create and compose shapes

Grade 1 Overview

In Grade 1, students continue to build capacity as mathematicians. Continuing work with number sense develops algebraic thinking. Students use a variety of tools, manipulatives and models to construct, investigate and explore place value, and the meaning of addition and subtraction. Reasoning skills continue to be at the forefront of teaching and learning as students build communication skills.

Grade 1 Overview of Big Ideas

Operations and Algebraic Thinking:

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
• Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
• Work with addition and subtraction equations

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

• Extend the counting sequence
• Understand place value
• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

Measurement and Data:

• Measure and compare a variety of lengths with non-standard units
• Tell and write time
• Represent and interpret data

Geometry:

• Reason with shapes and their attributes

Grade 2 Overview

In Grade 2, students focus on extending their understanding of the base-ten number system, build fluency with addition and subtraction, use standard units of measurement such as centimeters and describe and analyze shapes. They use objects,tools, pictures, words and symbols to show their thinking. Mental imagery continues to be important as students work with larger numbers.

Grade 2 Overview of Big Ideas

Operations and Algebraic Thinking:

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
• Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

• Understand place value
• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

Measurement and Data:

• Measure and estimate lengths in standard units
• Relate addition and subtraction to length
• Work with time and money
• Represent and interpret data

Geometry:

• Reason with shapes and their attributes