Classroom Idea Sheet

Parking Lot

Parking lots and cars are a good way to get students motivated to use direction – an important precursor to primary math. In a parking lot cars can go left, right, forward, and back. In this activity, students figure out directions to park a car in a numbered space.

Standards alignment

Common Standards — cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and the California Content Standards.
StandardFrameworkGradeSubjectDomain
Preschool DRDP-PS: Gross motor movement, Cooperative Play, Fine Motor Skills; Common Core Mathematics: Counting And Cardinality

About this sheet

Grades covered

Pre-K – Grade 1

Curriculum topics

Counting, One-to-one Correspondence, Problem Solving

Sheet number

750