level 1 | mathematics | teachers | my-first-groups

Description

This is the final “spell” for Level 1 Mathematics. If your Apprentice can meet these challenges, they’re ready to move to Level 2 and learn all about numbers, counting, addition, and more.

This resource is about “grouping”: looking at a bunch of things and making sense of them. Creating order by dividing it into smaller groups.

It starts with the common, easy ways to group, such as “all the RED things” or “all the BIG things”. Your Apprentice(s) can likely already do this just fine, but it’s still good to start there and strengthen this skill.

Then the resource moves onto harder and harder groupings. Through a wide variety of challenges, Apprentices are asked to compare things and find patterns, common links, or just create sensible subgroups. As always, the exercises are as physical and visual as possible, with most of them automatically revealing if you did it right (such as by revealing a recognizable image when done).

REMARK! The resource also briefly touches on the idea of “tables” or “grids”. We do this not only because it’s a relevant topic, but also because they are VERY common elements in puzzles, escape rooms and games. Thus, we wanted to prepare Apprentices for what they are and what they look like, so they’ll struggle far less with the other Factions of this online store.
REMARK! This is effectively a “simpler” pre-counter version of “My First Patterns”. In this resource, the patterns are all very tangible and simple things: “Oh, all these animals have a tail, and all these animals don’t!” Level 2 will add more abstract or complicated patterns/groups, involving a wider variety of skills.

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Product Contents

  • Explainer of Grouping / Categorization.
  • Are These The Same Group? (Colors/Animals)
  • Group Circling
  • Connect The Dots (Groups)
  • Grouping Tables I + II
  • Color The Groups
  • Grouping Maze (find the right path by sticking to icons from the same group)
  • Panda Diagram (simplified introduction Venn Diagrams)
  • Cross Group Puzzle (draw lines to split icons into groups)
  • Grouping Activities
  • Group Cut-out Tiles
  • Grouping Tarsia
  • Grouping Pyramid (group rectangles such that they fit the staircase pyramid in terms of size)
  • Double Grouping Challenge (groups inside groups)

Fine Details

DetailValue
Age3
Categoriessorting, grouping, patterns, categorization, labeling, tables
Languageen
Level1
Subjectmathematics
Textlesstrue
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Subject: Mathematics

The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.

This resource is part of the Mathematics subject. Below is a summary:

This subject teaches Mathematics from first principles to calculus. Level 1 explores the basic skills needed before you do any counting or see any numbers (such as grouping and comparing objects). Level 2(+) can then introduce numbers, counting, addition, multiplication, and more.

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Faction: Teachers

This resource is part of the Teachers Faction.

But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!

You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.

Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.

For example,

Charm: Lesson Material

This product is part of the Lesson Material charm.

Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:

Lesson Material refers to anything you can directly use in a classroom or when homeschooling. They are a guide for Guardians so they know what to do/teach, as well as the textbook or initial explanation of a skill/topic for Apprentices.

This charm represents the base product of our curriculum and the type of resource you’d use in a typical school setting.

Spell: My First Groups

This resource is part of the My First Groups topic (or "spell").

Earlier topics taught you to compare objects and check if they match or not. This allows you to GROUP matching things together! This is the final step towards counting (in the next level). Because, well, counting is nothing more than adding things to the same ‘group’, and then attaching a number to that.

Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.

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Ready for the next step?

The Spell (or "educational topic") of this product is My First Groups.

Use the buttons to navigate to the next or previous Spell. It selects a product of the same type if possible. Otherwise it brings you to the overview page.

Or visit the Full Curriculum overview.

Try another approach?

The Faction (or "product type") of this product is Teachers.

This approach might work for some Apprentices but not for others! That's why we recommend exploring each topic in a variety of ways.

Maybe a (different) game works better? Or a quiz, story, or escape room? Below are some random suggestions.