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FTCE PK-3 MATH
Study guide for the PK-3 Math subtest
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One to one correspondence | Matching each object by the corresponding number once. Every object gets ONE number. Ex: You give a student 5 pennies and they point and say 1, 2, 3.. |
| Cardinality | The TOTAL or final number of number of objects |
| Rote Counting | Reciting numbers in the correct order Ex: Counting by 1s, or starting at 1 |
| Conservation of numbers | The number of objects remains the same even after being rearranged. Ex: Given 5 cars, the student understands that there are 5 even if they are spread into a line or a circle. |
| Making sets given criteria | Pairing objects based on the similarity Ex: A teacher shows hat, bat, pizza, car, and glove. She asks: What would you see at a baseball game? |
| Seriation | Putting objects in size order. smallest- largest largest-smallest |
| Subtilizing | MENTAL COUNT Recognizing how many without counting. |
| Ordinal numbers | Counting in terms of "place" First, second, third, fourth, fifth.. |
| Cardinal numbers | Counting in terms of how many. |
| Counting On | Starting on one number and counting until it reaches the second number. Adding without starting at 1. Ex: A child starts at 30, using his fingers to track his counting. |
| Counting collections | Counting by using "sets" of a number Ex: Diving a large bag of popsicle sticks into piles of 5 each, then counting how many of |