Daily Lessons in Addition & Subtraction Preschool Math Unit

Description

This Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics: Addition & Subtraction Unit includes everything you need to teach early addition and subtraction skills in a developmentally appropriate, hands-on way.

Designed specifically for preschool learners, this unit replaces boring worksheets with daily routines, discovery-based activities, and play-based math centers that build true number sense.

This is a standalone unit, and it is also part of the complete Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Curriculum.

What’s Included in the Addition & Subtraction Unit

This unit includes four weeks (20 days) of structured, open-and-teach lesson plans:

• Yearly scope and sequence placement
• Daily math learning routines
• Weekly discovery concept prompts
• Targeted, skill-based math activities
• Integrated literacy connections
• Weekly printable math centers
• Teacher tips and instructional support
• Bonus activities for reinforcement and differentiation

Everything is clearly laid out so you always know what to teach and when.

Targeted Addition & Subtraction Skills in the Preschool Unit:

• More and less
• Increasing and decreasing quantities
• Number sequencing (order)
• Composing within 5
• Decomposing within 5
• Composing within 10
• Decomposing within 10

Skills are met with short, hands-on, daily learning routines and teacher-directed activities. They are reinforced with weekly printable math centers, weekly discovery concept activities, and integrated literacy activities.

Hands-On Preschool Math Centers Included

Each week includes printable, reusable math centers that align directly with the daily lessons.

Centers in this unit include:

• 9-1 Composing Five, Composing Ten
• 9-2 Ten Frame Addition Mats
• 9-3 Watermelon Number Order Clip Cards
• 9-4 Snapping Number Order Cubes
• 9-5 Playdough Ice Cream One More, One Less Mats
• 9-6 Zoo Animal One More, One Less Task Cards
• 9-7 Ten Frame Subtraction Cards
• 9-8 Roll & Add One, Subtract One

The preschool math curriculum also includes a teacher guide for implementing the curriculum in a spiral and unit based approach.

How This Unit Fits Into the Full Preschool Math Curriculum

This Addition & Subtraction Unit is one of nine units in the complete Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Curriculum, which includes:

• 40 weeks of math instruction
• A spiral, unit-based scope and sequence
• 72 printable and reusable math centers
• Built-in instructional guidance for teachers

Additional Required Materials

To complete some activities in this unit, you may need:

• attribute shapes
• attribute buttons
• counting bears
• snap cubes