Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.1A Grade 2 CPI 3

 

Standard: 4.1 - Number and Numerical Operations

 

Strand: A - Number Sense

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 -  The student will understand that numbers have a variety of uses.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        A kindergarten teacher announces to her class: Boys and Girls! Great News! The principal told me that our class has just won FIVE! A discussion then ensues regarding the need for that number to exist in some context, to have some unit or label before it makes sense.

 

·        Second graders are given a stack of old magazines. They cut out any information which uses numbers and sort them according to how they are used: as page numbers, as prices, as dates, as addresses, and so on.

 

·        The class takes a walk around the school or neighborhood pointing out to each other the numbers they see, and discuss how they are used.