1. Third Quarter

2. Each “Problem of the Day” is correlated to our Cumberland County Task Analysis for the purpose of practicing each objective through problem solving. Each problem will be either a performance task, short answer, or multiple choice which allows students to work with problems through many avenues.
When using “Problem of the Day” provide students with manipulatives (which may include a calculator) and a mathematics journal. Expect that each student solves the problems and records his/her answer in a math journal. Students should include his/her answer along with a number sentence, a unit, a drawing (proof picture), and a written explanation of how the problem was solved.
After students have time to solve the problem, students should discuss solution strategies with their team. Following team discussions review the correct answer, the reason it is correct and in the case of multiple choice answers review why answers are incorrect.
Special thanks to the kindergarten members of the Mathematics Leadership Team: Jane McCosh and Maria Polumbo who worked so hard to make these problems possible.

3. Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw as many different kinds of triangles as you can. How many sides and vertices does a triangle have?
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

4. Draw a picture using only that shape.
Performance Task and Short Answer
What is your favorite shape? How many sides and vertices does your favorite shape have?
Draw a picture using only that shape.
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

5. Name objects in your classroom that are spheres.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Name objects in your classroom that are spheres.
How many sides and vertices does a sphere have?
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

6. Draw and name objects in your classroom that are cubes.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw and name objects in your classroom that are cubes.
What plane shape do you see on a cube?
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

7. Draw 10 rectangles on a piece of paper. Color 3 blue. Color 4 red.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw 10 rectangles on a piece of paper.
Color 3 blue. Color 4 red.
How many rectangles are not colored?
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

8. Name three objects at your house that are spheres.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Think about your house.
Name three objects at your house that are spheres.
Draw the three items.
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

9. Name three objects at your house that are cubes.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Think about your house.
Name three objects at your house that are cubes.
Draw the three items.
3.01 Identify, build, draw and name triangles, rectangles, circles and squares (CCS); identify, build and name spheres and cubes.
* Third quarter focus: identify and name spheres and cubes.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.01

10. Put the puzzle back together.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw a large geometric shape (square, triangle, circle, or rectangle) on a piece of paper.
Cut it out.
Cut it into 5 pieces.
Put the puzzle back together.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

11. Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw a picture using only rectangles. How many sides and vertices does a rectangle have?
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

12. Draw a square and a triangle.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw a square and a triangle.
Tell what is the same about the two shapes.
Tell what is different about the two shapes.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

13. Think of a box. What shape is it? Tell three things about that shape.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Think of a box. What shape is it?
Tell three things about that shape.
Make a list of objects in your classroom that are that shape.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

14. Look around your classroom.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Look around your classroom.
Find as many circles, rectangles, triangles, and squares as you can.
Draw these shapes.
Create a T-chart to show how the shapes are the same and how the shapes are different.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

15. Performance Task and Short Answer
Tell the likenesses and differences between the following geometric figures:
spheres and circles
cubes and squares.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

16. Find a shape in the classroom and name that shape.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Find a shape in the classroom and name that shape.
Draw something that is the same shape.
Draw something that is not the same shape.
3.02 Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences) (triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, spheres and cubes).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.02

17. Sort attribute shapes according to color, size, shape, or thickness.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Sort attribute shapes according to color, size, shape, or thickness.
Explain how you sorted the attributes.
3.04 Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.04

18. Create and color a picture.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Create and color a picture.
Cut the picture apart using only straight lines.
Put the picture back together again.
Have a partner put the picture together.
3.04 Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.04

19. Take pattern blocks and cover a large hexagon.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Take pattern blocks and cover a large hexagon.
Try covering the hexagon using many different pattern blocks.
What shapes did you use? How many of each shape?
3.04 Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.04

20. Use pattern blocks to cover the picture.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Create a large picture using the triangle, square, and rectangle pattern blocks.
Use pattern blocks to cover the picture.
3.04 Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 1-4
Objective 3.04

21. Performance Task and Short Answer
Count the doors in your classroom. How many doors did you count? Represent the number you counted in as many different ways as you can.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

22. Count the number of students present today.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Count the number of students present today.
If you were absent, how many students would be present today? If you were absent would there be more or less students present?
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

23. How many pockets are on your clothes? Write the number.
Performance Task and Short Answer
How many pockets are on your clothes?
Write the number.
Pair with a partner. Who has the most pockets? Add your number of pockets with a partner’s number of pockets.
How many pockets do you have all together?
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

24. Performance Task and Short Answer
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Count the number of items in each set. Put the numbers in order from largest to smallest.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

25. Performance Task and Short Answer
Count backwards from 20 to 0. Write the numbers. Pick three of the numbers and order them from smallest to largest.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

26. Performance Task and Short Answer
Start at 13 and count as high as you can. Write the last number. Which number is the largest number you wrote? Which number is the smallest?
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

27. Show one more and one less. Write the number.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Take a handful of bears.
Count the bears.
Write the number.
Show one more and one less. Write the number.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01d Compare and order sets and numbers.
* Third quarter focus: 0-20.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01d

28. Place 10 of your favorite colored crayons in a line on your desk.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Place 10 of your favorite colored crayons in a line on your desk.
What color is first?
What color is third?
What color is eighth?
What color is tenth?
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

29. Name the position of the letter H in the alphabet.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Name the position of the letter H in the alphabet.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

30. Draw a picture of the members of your family in a line.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw a picture of the members of your family in a line.
Circle the second person in line.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

31. Tell the position of the number 7.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Write the numbers 1-10.
Tell the position of the number 7.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

32. Line up some pattern blocks. Draw and name the fifth block.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Line up some pattern blocks.
Draw and name the fifth block.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

33. Take out a blue, a red, and a yellow crayon.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Take out a blue, a red, and a yellow crayon.
Place the crayons in the following order:
Blue is second.
Red is not first.
Yellow is first.
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

34. Draw the colored tiles and write the ordinals in the correct order.
Performance Task and Short Answer
3rd th st th nd th th
1.01 Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
1.01e Use ordinals (1st through 10th).
Draw the colored tiles and write the ordinals in the correct order.
Does it make a pattern? What type?
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 1.01e

35. How many pockets do you have on your clothes today?
Performance Task and Short Answer
How many pockets do you have on your clothes today?
Write the number.
As a class, graph the number of pockets to represent how many each child has.
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

36. What was your best vacation?
Performance Task and Short Answer
What was your best vacation?
Draw a picture showing where you went on this vacation.
As a class, graph the results.
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

37. Do you prefer to wear gloves or mittens? Draw the one you like most.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Do you prefer to wear gloves or mittens?
Draw the one you like most.
As a class, graph the results and discuss.
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

38. What is your favorite sport? Draw a picture to represent it.
Performance Task and Short Answer
What is your favorite sport?
Draw a picture to represent it.
Graph the pictures as a class.
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

39. What is your favorite ice cream—chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry?
Performance Task and Short Answer
What is your favorite ice cream—chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry?
Draw a picture of your favorite.
Graph the pictures as a class.
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

40. Graph the weather for a week.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Graph the weather for a week.
Look at the number of days that are hot, cold, rainy, cloudy, sunny, and windy.
Which section has more? Less? Are there any that are equal?
4.02 Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
*Third quarter focus: displaying data with pictorial graphs.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 4.02

41. I like I like I like I like I like
Performance Task and Short Answer
I like I like I like I like I like
This is a pattern using the words “I” and “like”.
Think of another pattern using different sight words.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

42. Make an AAB pattern using color words.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Make an AAB pattern using color words.
Color squares with that pattern.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
green green blue green
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

43. Repeat the above pattern 3 times.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Snap Clap Jump
Repeat the above pattern 3 times.
Make up another pattern using different actions.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

44. Performance Task and Short Answer
Draw any pattern using red squares, blue triangles, and yellow circles.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

45. I have 3 blue bears, and 2 red bears.
Performance Task and Short Answer
I have 3 blue bears, and 2 red bears.
Draw AB pattern using these bears.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

46. Line up at the door in a “Boy, Girl” pattern.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Line up at the door in a “Boy, Girl” pattern.
Now make a “Boy, Girl, Girl” pattern.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02

47. Make up a pattern with actions. Your partner will mirror your pattern.
Performance Task and Short Answer
Make up a pattern with actions.
Your partner will mirror your pattern.
Now switch roles. Your partner will make up the pattern and you will mirror it.
5.02 Create and extend patterns with actions, words and objects.
*Third quarter focus: create and extend patterns with words.
Kindergarten
Third Quarter
Weeks 5-9
Objective 5.02