Essential Skills Software™.....
All Essential Skills educational software programs include a progress reporting system that tracks student achievement throughout each program. This feature provides an accurate reflection of how a student is performing in respect to the various skill areas within each program. Progress reports can be easily printed for individual students or an entire class.
Math Overview
Six programs provide students in grades K through 3 with a strong foundation in basic numeration and measurement skills. The Mastering Numeration programs progress students from number recognition to more advanced skills including, multiplication, division and working with simple fractions. The Measurement programs develop a variety of measurement skills including, the ability to read a clock, how to measure length and height, how to estimate the weight of various objects and much more.
Mastering Numeration
Provides students in grades K to 1 with a strong foundation in understanding basic number concepts. Some of the skills taught in this program include: number recognition, counting, addition and subtraction.
Targeted Skills
- Number Recognition to 100
- Counting
- Addition facts to 18
- Subtraction facts from 10
- Basic calculator skills
Mastering Numeration Level 2
Provides students in grade 2 with a strong foundation in understanding basic number concepts. Some of the skills taught in this program include: adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with regrouping, multiplication, division and working with simple fractions.
Targeted Skills
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Fractions
- Working with Money
- Ordinal Numbers
Mastering Numeration Level 3
Builds upon the basic number concepts developed in grade 1 and 2. The skills taught in this program include: adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with regrouping, multiplication, division and working with simple fractions.
Targeted Skills
- Number patterns
- Place value
- Addition facts and regrouping
- Subtraction facts and regrouping
- Multiplication to 7x7
- Division to 49/7
- Money up to $10.00
- Fractions and decimals
Measurement
Provides students with a practical understanding of measurement and how it applies to everyday life. Measurement is an essential component of a well-rounded mathematics curriculum.
Targeted Skills
- Telling time
- Identify and count coins
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Understanding the four seasons
- Measuring length and height
- Calculating area, perimeter and distance
Measurement Grade 2
Teaches appropriate measurement terminology and provides practice in both metric and standard units of measure.
Targeted Skills
- Reading a clock
- Working with money
- How a calendar works
- Temperature and reading a thermometer
- Comparing length, height and distance
- Calculating area, perimeter distance
- Estimating weight of objects
Measurement Grade 3
Develops skills in measurement and estimation using both metric and standard units of measure.
Targeted Skills
- Working with money
- How to read a thermometer
- Measuring length, height and distance
- Calculating area and perimeter
- Calculating capacities, volumes and masses
- Reading a clock in five-minute intervals
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