Kindergarten Math: What Happens April – June?
It’s spring when the realization dawns: in a few more months your child will officially be a first-grader! It may seem like there’s still plenty of time left to brush up on all the math skills that will prepare your kindergartener for success next year, but the reality is that there’s still a lot to cover, and time will fly. In the last few months of kindergarten, your child will be challenged to take what she’s learned in math this year and apply it in new and more abstract ways. The list of shapes she knows will expand, the ways she uses addition and subtraction will change, and she’ll not only be finding solutions to mathematic problems, she’ll also be choosing the approach she’ll take. Want to know what’s in store for your child in math from now, until the end of the school year? Every school is different, but here are the top six topics teachers typically cover from Spring through kindergarten graduation: 1. Counting, Recognizing and Writing Higher Numbers: As the year comes to a
