Number and Operations-Mathematics: Ages 3-5

Number and Operations-Mathematics: Ages 3-5
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State: Nebraska Department of Education

Widely Held Expectations

Child develops awareness of numerals

  • Counts up to ten or higher
  • Can judge whether groups of up to five objects each contain the same number of objects
  • Uses one to one matching (correspondence)
  •  Distinguishes between numbers and letters
  • Child uses language to demonstrate understanding of space and time (next to, on top of, before, after, etc.)
  •  Begins to learn sequences of events in time (first, next, last, etc.)
  • Child develops an understanding of the counting process
  • Counts in nursery rhymes;
  • Counts all types of objects;
  • Plays with counting forward or backward
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