Early Childhood Standards of Quality for ... - State of Michigan

ELE: Early learning in mathematics5. Early Learning Expectation: Children explore and discover simpleways to measure. [HSCOF-3.3.4, 4.2.3] [GLCE-M.UN.00.01-.05]Children typically:1. Show an awareness that things in their environment can be measured.2. Begin to understand concepts of weight.3. Show an awareness of the concept of time, beginning with the recognitionof time as a sequence of events.4. Recognize personal time as it relates to their daily life; e.g., breakfast,snack.5. Show an awareness of temperature as it affects their daily lives.6. Use beginning skills of estimation in solving every day measurementproblems; e.g., about how many cookies are needed for a small group ofchildren.7. Begin to use non-standard (e.g., length of hand) measures for length andarea of objects.8. Begin to understand that tools (e.g., rulers, scales, counters) can be usedto measure properties of objects and amounts.Examples of Experiences and Strategies• Children have opportunities to measure with traditional and non-traditionalitems; e.g., rulers vs. blocks or foot steps?• Children are encouraged to talk about their observation and usedescriptive language.• Children have opportunities to experiment with measurement using itemsof height, weight, length, etc.• Each child’s culture is included in the program on a continuous basisthrough song lyrics, pictures, play things, and dance, when possible usingkey words; i.e., big, little.• Books are included in the classroom library that demonstrate mathconcepts in appropriate and interesting ways.• The daily routine incorporates opportunities that demonstratemeasurement; e.g., the temperature on the thermometer, the length of theshadows on the playground.• The environment includes natural elements of various textures and sizesthat can be measured and compared.• The environment contains multiple sizes of common objects that gotogether; e.g., boxes, containers with lids, nuts and bolts.• The classroom contains charts and graphs of the children’s experienceswith measuring and comparing things in the environment and their work.114 Michigan Department of Education