Test 2

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Across
  1. 3. Strategies for building children's awareness of patterns.
  2. 6. Informal knowledge about math, including basic ideas about quantity, size, shape, and end pattern.
  3. 8. An integrated study of history, geography, economics, political science, and other related subjects, contributes to the development of competent citizens.
  4. 9. People have the power to make a variety of meaningful choices pertaining to their daily lives to become agents of change.
  5. 10. Basic to children's lives. All children have wants and needs that act as a powerful motivation to begin understanding economic systems.
  6. 11. The gap that exists between children growing up in more affluent communities and those living in poverty.
  7. 14. Children need intentional teachers to understand concepts and acquire skills. Intentional teachers promote science learning by carefully organizing the environment, providing focused learning experiences, and integrating science into children's play and everyday routines.
  8. 16. An effective curriculum is more than a collection of activities. It must be coherent, focused on important mathematics and well articulated across the grades.
  9. 17. What is my problem, what are some solutions, what will happen next, give the solution a try.
  10. 19. Children assume different roles and share a purpose for the play.
  11. 21. Preschool to Kindergarten
  12. 24. Using connections to understand links between different areas of math.
  13. 25. The concept that the last number said stands for the total number in a set.
  14. 26. Children learn basic ideas about the properties of liquids and solid materials and objects.
Down
  1. 1. Study of the characteristics, life cycles, and environments of organisms.
  2. 2. Achievement gaps exist not only between our country and others, but also within our country. A mathematics achievement gap exists between students growing up in more affluent neighborhoods and those living in poverty.
  3. 4. While doing this, it is important to provide an engaging learning environment and opportunities to explore.
  4. 5. An overarching aspect of the curriculum is the process of doing science.
  5. 7. Children use multiple strategies to resolve social conflicts. Teachers can guide children through conflict resolution.
  6. 12. To understand and think about everyday problems and experience in explicitly mathematical terms.
  7. 13. Its important to take students out on field trips in their surrounding areas to experience their environment.
  8. 15. More focus should be placed on number competence. The goal is that children achieve the foundational number and operations goals necessary for their continued progress in primary grades.
  9. 17. Refers to young children's ability to form and sustain positive relationships with adults and other children.
  10. 18. Children play alone usually with toys or objects, ages 2-2 and a half.
  11. 20. DevelopmentPreschool During these years, most children become increasingly capable of regulating their own emotions.
  12. 22. Learn these concepts through active experiences and engaging in geographic thinking.
  13. 23. Effective and fun way to develop young children's numerical knowledge.