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🧮 Kindergarten · MathK.MD.B.3Unit 9: Measurement & data

Sort and count

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🎯 Objective: Students sort objects into categories, count each and compare the counts.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort a bag of buttons by color.
  2. Count each group and write the number.
  3. Make a simple object graph.
  4. Exit: which group had the most?

Lesson 4 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K.MD.B.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe length, height and weight
  • Compare two objects and tell which is longer, heavier
  • Sort, count and compare categories

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Measurement & Data📚 All Kindergarten skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Measurement & data”

  1. Long, tall, heavy
  2. Longer and shorter
  3. Heavier and lighter
  4. Sort and count
  5. Class surveys

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