The cumulative progress indicators for grade 4 appear below in boldface type. Each indicator is followed by activities which illustrate how it can be addressed in the classroom in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. Explore a variety of puzzles, games, and counting problems. Students use teddy bear cutouts with, for example, shirts of two colors and shorts of three colors, and decide how many different outfits can be made by making a list of all possibilities and arranging them systematically. Students read A Three Hat Day and then try to create as many different hats as possible with three hats, a feather, a flower, and a ribbon as decoration.
Students count the different hats they've made and discuss their answers.
They can be challenged to find the numbers of small squares of each size on a larger square or rectangular grid. Students work in groups to figure out the rules of addition and placement that are used to pass from one row to the next in the diagram below, and use these rules to find the numbers in the next few rows. Students play simple games and discuss why they make the moves they do. Use networks and tree diagrams to represent everyday situations. Students find a way of getting from one island to another, in the graph described in the K-2 Overview laid out on the classroom floor with masking tape, by crossing exactly four bridges.