Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this hands-on sorting activity. Given a bag of objects, learners work independently sorting the items based on their physical attributes, counting to determine the size of each group. This process is repeated as young learners explore different ways of sorting the same set of objects. A fun primary grade math lesson plan that develops the counting skills and number sense of young children.

Concepts

grouping, sorting & categorizing, counting, numbers cardinal, numbers, sorting

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Additional Tags

sorting, grouping, counting, Comparing, physical attributes, physical traits, categorizing, cardinality, math

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Pros

• Includes ideas for differentiating the lesson to meet the needs of all learners
• Provides children with a clear learning objective

Cons

• Teacher must prepare bags of objects to use in the sorting activity

Common Core

K.MD.B.3 MP4 MP6