Mathematics Standards - Age 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Strand 2: OPERATIONS AND ALGEBRAIC THINKING

Operations and algebraic thinking involve identifying and manipulating simple patterns, the understanding of addition as putting together and adding to, and the understanding of subtraction as taking apart and removing from.

Standard Math 4 yr.2.3

Take apart numbers less than or equal to five by using objects with different attributes (for example, 5 can be taken apart into sets of 2 blue and 3 yellow or 1 square and 4 circles).

• Adding and Taking Apart Numbers to 5
  Have several sets of 5 interlocking cubes, legos, or blocks with 2 different colors.  Talk about how you are holding 5 objects, but you can take them apart by color as you count the amounts in each section.  For example, 1 red block and 4 yellow blocks.  When they have all been taken apart, you can put them back together.  Help your child(ren) discover how two different colored objects can be put together to make 5.  

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