Classroom Idea Sheet

Apple Match

Apples make a wonderful, fall theme for pre-school or kindergarten classrooms. This game plays like Concentration: students turn over apples showing number equivalents to find and collect matching pairs.

Standards alignment

Common Standards — cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and the California Content Standards.
StandardFrameworkGradeSubjectDomain
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.Common Core MathematicsKindergartenMathematical Practices
K.CC.7. Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.Common Core MathematicsKindergartenCounting And CardinalityCompare Numbers
K.MD.3. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.3Common Core MathematicsKindergartenMeasurement And DataClassify Objects And Count The Number Of Objects In Each Category
K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings2, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.Common Core MathematicsKindergartenOperations And Algebraic ThinkingUnderstand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From
K.OA.5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.Common Core MathematicsKindergartenOperations And Algebraic ThinkingUnderstand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Mathematical Practices
1.OA.1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.2Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Operations And Algebraic ThinkingRepresent And Solve Problems Involving Addition And Subtraction
1.OA.2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Operations And Algebraic ThinkingRepresent And Solve Problems Involving Addition And Subtraction
1.OA.4. Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 ? 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Operations And Algebraic ThinkingUnderstand And Apply Properties Of Operations And The Relationship Between Addition And Subtraction
1.OA.5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Operations And Algebraic ThinkingAdd And Subtract Within 20
1.OA.6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 ? 4 = 13 ? 3 ? 1 = 10 ? 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 ? 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).Common Core MathematicsGrade 1Operations And Algebraic ThinkingAdd And Subtract Within 20
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.Common Core MathematicsGrade 2Mathematical Practices
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.Common Core MathematicsGrade 3Mathematical Practices
California Standards — cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and the California Content Standards.
StandardFrameworkGradeSubjectDomain
1.0 Students make decisions about how to set up a problem.CA MathematicsGrade Kindergarten05. Mathematical Reasoning
1.2 Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns (such as circles or triangles) by referring to their shapes, sizes, or colors.CA MathematicsGrade Kindergarten04. Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability1.0 Students collect information about objects and events in their environment.
2.0 Students solve problems and justify their reasoning.CA MathematicsGrade 105. Mathematical Reasoning
2.0 Students sort objects and create and describe patterns by numbers, shape, size, rhythm, or color.CA MathematicsGrade 104. Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
2.6 Solve addition and subtraction problems with one- and two-digit numbers (e.g., 5 + 58 = __).CA MathematicsGrade 101. Number Sense2.0 Students demonstrate the meaning of addition and subtraction and use these operations to solve problems.
2.0 Students demonstrate an understanding of patterns and how they grow, and describe them in general ways.CA MathematicsGrade 204. Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
2.0 Students solve problems and justify their reasoning.CA MathematicsGrade 205. Mathematical Reasoning
1.0 Students conduct simple probability experiments by determining the number of possible outcomes and make simple predictions.CA MathematicsGrade 304. Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
2.0 Students use strategies, skills, and concepts in finding solutions.CA MathematicsGrade 305. Mathematical Reasoning

About this sheet

Grades covered

Pre-K – Grade 3

Curriculum topics

Arithmetic, Problem Solving, and Probability

Sheet number

281