Jen+F.+Stage+1

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= A) Numbers and Number Sense Pre-K The early learning environment should provide young children with rich opportunities to discover fundamental mathematical concepts and math's relevance to daily life.// ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * //State of Maine Early Childhood Learning Guidelines: Mathematics

//What understandings are desired?//
•Objects that share one or more attributes can be put together to make a group. •Numbers can be used to represent multiple uses. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * •Numbers are concepts that represent quantities and sequences.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•What is the same about these objects? •How do we know how big something is? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How many objects do you have?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Vocab: the names of numbers/numerals. Terms same/different, bigger/smaller taller, shorter, heavier, lighter. •Critical concepts: matching, sorting, grouping. || •show how differing measurement tools are used. •make sense of objects of differing attributes in order to create groups. •exhibit an understanding of quantity •compare objects from one or more groups with differing attributes •consider the variety of ways that numbers and measuring tools are used. •recognize numerals. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •Key facts: same,different, some numeral recognition


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**