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Pre K Grade Math Benchmark Targets by Strand
By year's end, all students will:
| Strand | # | Benchmark Target |
Link to TEKS | Curriculum Connection |
| Numbers, Operations, and Quantitative Reasoning | 1. | Arranges sets of concrete objects in one-to-one correspondence, compares number of objects using language and counts these objects to five or higher. | 1 | Number and Operations |
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Fishy Count counts to 10 Begin with buttons 8 related lessons |
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| 2. | Counts by ones to 10 or higher. | 1 | Number and Operations | |
| 3. | Combines, separates, and names “how many” concrete objects and begins to name “how many” are in a group of up to three (or more) objects without counting. | 1 | Number and Operations | |
Dominoes Lesson Plan |
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| 4. | Recognizes and describes the concept of zero | 1 | Number and Operations | |
| 5. | Begins to demonstrate part of and whole of real objects | 1 | Number and Operations | |
| 6. | Begins to identify first and last in a series | 1 | Number and Operations | |
| Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking |
7. | Imitates pattern sounds and physical movement | 2 | Patterns |
| 8. | Recognizes and reproduces simple patterns of concrete objects and begins to recognize patterns in their environment and to predict what comes next when patterns are extended | 2 | Patterns | |
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Powerful Patterns 9 part lesson plan |
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| Geometry and Spacial Reasoning |
9. | Begins to recognize, describe, and name shapes and notice when a shape’s position or orientation has changed | 3 | Geometry/ Spatial Sense |
| Shape Sorter a geometric "Memory" game | ||||
| 10. | Begins to use words that indicate where things are in space | 3 | Geometry/ Spatial Sense |
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| 11. | Begins to investigate and predict the results of putting together two or more shapes | 3 | Geometry/ Spatial Sense |
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| Using Tangrams | ||||
| 12. | Puts together puzzles of increasing complexity | Geometry/ Spatial Sense |
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| Butterfly game | ||||
| Measurement | 13. | Covers an area with shapes and /or fills a shape with solid or liquid | 4 | Measurement |
| 14. | Begins to make size comparisons between objects and order two or three objects by size | 4 | Measurement | |
| 15. | Begins to use tools to imitate measuring | 4 | Measurement | |
| Shape Pan Balance | ||||
| 16. | Begins to categorize time intervals and uses language associated with time in everyday situations | 4 | Measurement | |
| Probability and Statistics |
17. | Matches objects that are alike and describes similarities and differences between objects | 5 | Classification/ Data Collection |
| 18. | Sorts objects into groups by an attribute and begins to explain how the groping was done | Classification/ Data Collection |
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| 19. | Participates in creating and using real and pictorial graphs | Classification/ Data Collection |
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| Underlying Processes and Mathematical Tools | ||||
| TEKS SEARCH | Marco Polo Search by TEXAS TEKS Alignment | |||
| Teks Toolkit and Clarifying Activities for Math | ||||
| Great Math site AAA Math | ||||
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