Math is learned through a variety of methods, including teacher-led lessons, small group work, independent activities, games, and woven into our thematic units.
Instruction
Math groups are chosen by grade-level to ensure they are learning age-appropriate skills and concepts.
Our mathematics studies are pulled from California’s Common Core Standards. While we do not adhere to them as strictly as traditional schools do, they lend a great framework!
Kindergarten
Counting and Cardinality
Know number names and the count sequence.
Count to tell the number of objects.
Compare numbers.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers 11–19 to gain foundations for place value.
Measurement and Data
Describe and compare measurable attributes.
Classify objects and count the number of objects in categories.
Geometry
Identify and describe shapes.
Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
1st Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Add and subtract within 20.
Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Extend the counting sequence.
Understand place value.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Measurement and Data
Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
Tell and write time.
Represent and interpret data.
Geometry
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
2nd Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems involving addition and
subtraction.
Add and subtract within 20.
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for
multiplication.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Understand place value.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations
to add and subtract.
Measurement and Data
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
Relate addition and subtraction to length.
Work with time and money.
Represent and interpret data.
Geometry
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
3rd Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and
division.
Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship
between multiplication and division.
Multiply and divide within 100.
Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify
and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Use place value understanding and properties of operations
to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Measurement and Data
Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of
intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
Represent and interpret data.
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
Geometry
Reason with shapes and their attributes.