Concepts/Standards

Each of the 20 games included in the GSM set addresses early childhood standards. Our easy-to-follow game instructions list the specific standards designed into each game which include:

Counting and Cardinality (CC)

• Know number names and the count sequence
• Count to tell the number of objects
• Compare numbers
• Count to 100 by tens
• Use numbers to represent quantities

Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)

• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
• Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way.
• For any number from 1 to 9 find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number.
• Add and subtract within 20.
• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Work with addition and subtraction equations.

Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)

• Work with numbers 11–19 to gain foundations for place value.
• Understand tens, ones and place value.

Mathematical Practices (MP)

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

GAME-SET-MATH and Early Childhood Math Vocabulary

Research shows that vocabulary instruction is positively correlated to comprehension. The combination of linguistic and non-linguistic representations promotes deeper understanding of content-area vocabulary.

Keep in mind that the objective is to introduce math vocabulary to preschool and kindergarten children as they explore math ideas with concrete objects, not to make them memorize vocabulary. Teach math vocabulary as naturally as you would introduce the names of different foods, animals, places or things. The more children hear math vocabulary used with everyday activities, the more they will begin to use it correctly.

GAME-SET-MATH Math Vocabulary list:

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