The School District of Beloit selected a high-quality math curriculum aligned to WI state standards that incorporates research-based instructional strategies to support all students in their mathematical learning. The goal of the math program is to prepare our students for their future, which could be very different from the world we live in today. As a result, we make an effort to establish a solid foundation in problem solving, conceptual comprehension, procedural fluency, and applying math to real-world situations. At all grade-levels, lessons build on a student’s prior math knowledge to help prepare them for future math learning.

• know number names and the count sequence through at least 20.
• count to tell the number of objects.
• compare numbers within 20 to know which is greater and which is less.
• write numbers from 0 to 20.
• represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
• understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
• identify, describe, and compare attributes of simple shapes.
• classify objects and count the number of objects in categories.
• write an equation (number sentence) to match a given teen number from 11 to 19, using tens and ones.
• analyze, create, compose and decompose shapes.
• identify whether the number of objects (up to 10) in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.