Students learn to identify and describe squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. They also practice their fluency with numbers to 10.
Students learn to first identify the attribute being compared. Comparison begins with developing the meaning of the word "than" – "taller than," "shorter than," "heavier than," etc. Students will continue to practice fluency with numbers to 10 and begin to compare – "7 is 2 more than 5".
Comparison of numbers continues as students study more embedded numbers. "1 more, 2 more, 3 more" lead to addition. Students represent stories with blocks, drawings, and equations.
Students apply their knowledge of numbers to explore teen numbers. Teen numbers are decomposed as "10 ones and some ones." The focus on 10 will help students as it becomes the "ten" unit in place value.
Students build shapes from components, analyze, and compare them. They will discover that they can be composed of smaller shapes just as larger numbers are composed of smaller numbers.