Product Details
This book focuses on the mathematical background and research base of data and chance. The goal is to help young learners develop an understanding of the following four aspects of data and chance:
- Working with Data
- Interpreting Data
- Chance Language
- Everyday Chance
Although young children experience chance in various aspects of life, they need support and guidance to understand key aspects of chance. Particularly, they need help understanding likelihood and randomness.
Activities Overview
Each section of this book contains three activities for each of the five cognitive components. The five cognitive components are:
- Representing
- Reasoning
- Communicating
- Making Connections
- Problem Solving
These Pre-K to 1st grade data and chance activities involve young children in the initial reasoning processes of identifying and describing attributes, sorting, comparing, and ordering.
These activities encourage children to:
- Communicate reasoning
- Engage in discussion
- Reflect on experiences
- Connect new ideas with existing mathematical knowledge
Activities can be further divided into:
- Individual Activities
- Small-Group Activities
- Whole-Class Activities
- Reproducible blackline activities
