options: Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to learn stage 2 of the Less, Same, More center. Students compare groups of images in different arrangements. The activity synthesis highlights that numbers that are fewer than 5 come before 5 in the count sequence and numbers that are more than 5 come after 5 in the count sequence. This idea will be revisited in future sections and units. Students need repeated experiences comparing groups of objects, images, and numbers to be able to notice, articulate, and use the connection between the counting sequence and comparing the size of numbers (MP7, MP8).
The recording sheet is printed in the student book for this activity. There is a blackline master available for students to use during centers in future activities and lessons.
MLR8 Discussion Supports.
Remind students to use comparison language such as “fewer than,” “the same number as,” or “more than.”
Advances: Listening, Speaking
Required Materials
Materials to Copy
Less, Same, More Mat
Image Cards Grade K
Required Preparation
Create a T-chart labeled "Fewer than 5" and "More than 5".
Launch
Groups of 2
Give each group of students a set of cards.
“We are going to learn a new way to play the Less, Same, More center.”
Display the student page.
“How many dots are in the box?” (5)
30 seconds: quiet think time
Share responses.
Display an image card.
“How many dots are there?”
30 seconds: quiet think time.
Share responses.
“Are there fewer, the same, or more than 5? How do you know?”
Point to each part of the mat as you explain: “If it shows fewer than 5, put the card on the left. If it shows the same number, put the card in the middle. If it shows more, put the card on the right.”
“Choose a card, figure out how many things are on the card, and figure out if the image shows fewer, the same, or more than 5 images.”
Activity
7 minutes: partner work time
Student Facing
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Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display t-chart labeled ‘Fewer than 5’ on the left and ‘More than 5’ on the right.
“Choose a card that shows fewer than 5. How many things are on your card?”
30 seconds: partner work time
Share responses.
Write the numbers on the left side of the t-chart as students share.
Repeat for cards that show more than 5.
Read the numbers on each side of the chart.
“What do you notice? What do you wonder?” (It sounds like you are counting. The numbers you say before 5 are all together on one side and the numbers you say after 5 are on the other side.)


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