Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Make a set with objects from a given context within 10.
- Join or separate objects based on the context and recount to get a total.
- Make a visual representation of a set from a given context within 10.
- Add “more” to a set or “take from” or “take apart” a set based on the context.
- Recount the set to get a total.
- Recognize that the numbers in the problem relate to the visuals being utilized.
- Understand the following concepts and vocabulary: add, take apart, take from, subtract.
| Number: MAFS.K.OA.1.AP.2a | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 |
Cluster:
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. (Major Cluster) : Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters. |