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Early Learning Curriculum Mathematics Standards - Age 3 (2023)
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Strand 1: COUNTING AND CARDINALITY

Counting and cardinality includes the ability to identify numerals by name, count in sequence, use one-to-one correspondence, and describe quantities of objects counted.

Standard Math 3 yr.1.5

Begin to develop an understanding of the relationship between some numbers and quantities by using one-to-one correspondence.
  • 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.  
  • Correspondence and Cardinality
    Children will count out objects by touching the objects as they count them. Ask them to answer how many they counted. 
  • Nursery Rhyme - Five Green and Speckled Frogs
    Children will listen to a song with movements as the adult points out the words in the rhyme. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions they will point out the words and control their movements.

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