As part of our first math unit, the children have been working on collecting and sorting data on the Smartboard and using manipulatives such as attribute blocks and “treasures” (buttons, screws, shells, and creepy crawlers).

Click on the video below to see how two children chose to sort their shells using a single attribute.

With sorting in place, our next step is to

display or graph our data.  We are working on reading bar graphs and asking and answering questions about the data as well as making comparisons.  We will continue to work on graphing using bar and pictographs and tally charts.