Teach Common Core Math Through Dramatic Play

Dramatic play offers unprecedented opportunities for teaching Common Core Math concepts through authentic experiences. In fact, when asked to work on math skills in the context of a play situations, students are always able to work at a level above their normal skill. To meet the high academic demands of the 21st century, play will be critical to student success, scaffolding their learning in a way that allows them to be successful.

Table of Contents

Dinosaur Museum: Decomposing and composing shapes

Post Office: Understanding the relationships between numbers and quantities

The Costume Shop: Know number names and the count sequence

Pizza Restaurant: Comparing numbers

Ice Cram Parlor: Represent addition and subtraction

Chocolate Shop: Composing and decomposing shapes

Trip to Space: Classifying, sorting, and charting data

The News Station: Answer “How many” despite the arrangement of objects

Santa’s Workshop: Identifying teen numbers as groups of ten and some ones

Knight’s Castle: Describe and compare castles by their measurable attributes

Farm Fluency: Adding and subtracting fluently within 5

The Bakery: Composing and decomposing shapes

Three Bear’s Cottage: Describing objects in the environment using names of shapes and position words