Cherry Brook Primary School uses Everyday Mathematics. This program originated in 1983 from the research of The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project.  Some of the key features of the Everyday Mathematics program include:

• Problem solving for everyday situations
• Developing readiness through hands-on activities
• Establishing links between past experiences and explorations of new concepts
• Sharing ideas through discussion
• Cooperative learning through partner and small-group activities
• Practice through games
• Ongoing review throughout the year
• Daily routines
• Ongoing assessment
• Home and school partnership

Everyday Mathematics and Cherry Brook Primary School establishes learning goals that students should know when they exit each grade. Please refer to the grade levels below to view the learning goals.

The learning goals for Kindergarten are:

• Identifies basic shapes
• Recognizes numerals to 20
• Counts to 100 by 1s
• Counts backwards from 10
• Counts objects using 1:1 correspondence
• Writes numbers to 12
• Sorts and classifies objects by color, shape, and size
• Recognizes and extends patterns
• Understand estimation/makes reasonable estimates
• Performs simple data collection and graphing
• Knows the value of a penny
• Knows the value of a nickel
• Know the value of a dime
• Recognizes a quarter
• Estimates times on an analog clock using only the hour hand

The learning goals for First Grade are:

• Counts up and back by 1s starting with any number up to 20
• Counts by 2s up to 50
• Counts by 5s up to 100
• Counts by 10s up to 100
• Counts up and back by 1s on the number line
• Counts 20 objects using 1:1 correspondence
• Writes numbers from 1-20 without reversals
• Identifies pennies
• Counts pennies
• Exchange pennies for nickels
• Identifies nickels
• Counts nickels
• Exchanges nickels for dimes
• Identifies dimes
• Counts dimes
• Counts combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes to $.50
• Tells time to the nearest hour
• Tells time to the nearest half hour
• Orders and compares numbers 1 to 22
• Computes +0 addition facts
• Computes +1 addition facts
• Computes addition double facts to 12
• Knows addition facts for sums of 10
• Understands place value using tens and ones

The learning goals for Second Grade are:

• Show P (penny), N (nickel), D (dime), and Q (quarter) for a given amount
• Count by 2s, 5s, 10s
• Make tallies and give the total
• Find equivalent names for numbers
• Construct fact families for addition and subtraction
• Solve simple subtraction number stories
• Solve simple addition number stories
• Identify place value in 2-digit and 3-digit numbers
• Know all addition facts
• Know easy subtraction facts
• Complete “What’s My Rule?” tables
• Complete simple Frames-and-Arrows diagrams
• Tell time to 5-minute intervals
• Add and subtract with multiples of 10
• Solve addition and subtraction number stories
• Add three 1-digit numbers mentally
• Draw line segments
• Identify 2-dimensional shapes
• Know complements of 10
• Count by 2s, 5s, 10s and describe the patterns
• Find missing addends for the next multiple of 10
• Solve number-grid puzzles
• Plot data on a bar graph
• Measure to the nearest inch
• Measure to the nearest centimeter
• Identify equivalencies for inches, feet, and yards
• Use a ruler, tape measure, and meter/yardstick correctly
• Shade a specified fractional part of a region
• Give the fraction name for the shaded part of a region
• Know and express automatically the values of digits in 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers
• Read and write money amounts in decimal notation
• Use equivalent coins to show money amounts in different ways
• Use a calculator to compute money amounts
• Know exchange values of U.S. coins

The learning goals for Third Grade are:  

• Know basic addition and subtraction facts
• Complete fact and number families
• Solve addition and subtraction multi-digit number stories
• Add and subtract multi-digit numbers
• Measure line segments to the nearest inch
• Measure line segments to the nearest centimeter
• Know multiplication facts
• Read, write, and compare whole numbers up to 5 digits
• Identify and name 2-D and 3-D shapes
• Identify symmetrical figures and draw lines of symmetry

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