Teacher’s tips

Level of Education: Elementary School - Preschool

Age: 5 to 7 years old

Subjects: Mathematics

Kids from preschool must participate in situations where they can solve a problem using units of measurement and give meaning to social practice. Kids can give sense to mathematics and build solid knowledge to work with it by solving problems involving size, width, height, and position.

Pedagogical goals

• To reinforce the content of the following concepts: big/small, tall/short, narrow/wide, thin/thick, fat/skinny, slow/fast, behind of/in front of, facing toward/facing away;
• To identify units of measurement;
• To compare different units of measurement;
• To use different strategies to recognize numbers in situations that involve measurements;
• To solve problem-situation involving the relations between units of measurement;
• To establish connections between units of measurement working with simple estimative;
• To stimulate logical thinking;
• To relate images with two opposite concepts;
• To compare and highlight the difference between the images by looking at their size, position, thickness, height, speed, and width.
• To improve the ability of visual discrimination.