Kindergarten math, unit by unit

What should a kindergarten homeschool math curriculum teach, and how?

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Numbers, Shapes, and Stories: Kindergarten Mathematics is a full year of math for a five-year-old, eight units and 14+ hours, run by a parent from a script. Every lesson opens with a short story you tell out loud and ends with your child tapping a picture, so nothing has to be read or typed.

The eight units

How Many? Counting and Matching to 10. Counting Further: To 20 and by Tens to 100. More, Fewer, or Same: Comparing Groups. Writing and Reading Numbers to 20. Joining and Separating: Addition and Subtraction Stories to 10. Ten and Some More: Decomposing 11-19. Comparing Length and Weight. Naming and Building 2D and 3D Shapes.

Counting that actually holds up

Unit 1 teaches that every object gets one number word, said once, and that the last word said is the total. Your child counts a line, then a scattered pile, then objects in a circle, and learns by checking that moving the objects around does not change how many there are.

Stories before number sentences

In the addition and subtraction unit your child acts out things arriving and things leaving with real objects first. A sentence like 5 - 2 = 3 comes afterward as a record of what already happened, and the equals sign is read as 'is the same as.'

Why 14 is a ten and four ones

The teen-number unit gives every number from 11 to 19 the same structure, a full ten plus some loose ones, using ten-frames. Your child builds a teen number with objects and learns to count on from ten to find a total.

Things from the kitchen drawer

Buttons, blocks, dried beans and coins do most of the teaching. The screen is where your child taps a picture to show what the hands just worked out.

It starts where your child is

The first day of Unit 1 is you watching where your child's counting breaks down, with nothing corrected yet. Some children arrive counting to ten and some do not, and the course is built around that.

What this is not

It is not a course your child runs alone. A parent reads each story aloud and sets out the objects, and the course gives you the words to say.
It is not a reading course. A child who cannot read yet can do all of it because nothing is read or typed, and reading is taught in a separate phonics course.
It is not a speed course. Sorting out what a number is comes before writing it, and the course slows down when a child needs more time.

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Questions parents ask

Can my child start if they can barely count?

Yes. The guide expects that a child who can only recite a broken string of number words, anywhere from 3 to 10, is at a normal starting point, and Unit 1 begins by watching how your child counts before teaching anything.

How much time does a day take?

The guide plans about 50 minutes a day, five days a week, and says a five-year-old's attention for brand new ideas is closer to 10 to 15 minutes. The rest is warm-up and hands-on practice with objects.

What does first grade assume after this?

That a child arrives already counting and comparing, and sure that numbers stand for real amounts of real things. Tens, Ones, and Adventures: Grade 1 Mathematics is the next course.

What does it cost?

$29 a month or $290 a year for every child. The first 30 days are free with no card.

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