Who should select the themes built into a thematic unit?

• A. The schools administrators
• B. The teachers
• C. The children
• D. The teachers and the children.

How many stages of development for constructing graphs do childrenprogress through?

• A. One stage
• B. Two stages
• C. Four stages
• D. Five stages

In the integrated multicultural curriculum it is NOT appropriate to:

• A. cook/eat a variety of ethnic dishes.
• B. construct graphs of childrens favorite foods.
• C. use colorful cultural artifacts in their dramatic play.
• D. focus only on the primary culture of the class.

The main source of topics for graphing should be:

• A. teachers ideas.
• B. textbooks.
• C. childrens questions.
• D. informational books.

Storybooks such as The Gingerbread Man, Caps for Sale, and The ThreeLittle Pigs aid in developing the concept of:

• A. time sequence.
• B. culture sequence.
• C. social sequence.
• D. time duration.

Primary grade students will be moving into which of the following stages?

• A. Seeing a need for standard units
• B. Playing and imitation
• C. The process of making comparisons
• D. Using arbitrary units

Children with special needs can benefit from doing measurement activities:

• A. on their own.
• B. working with paper and pencil problems.
• C. working in pairs.
• D. using rulers.

Ordering is a higher level of:

• A. contrasting.
• B. comparing.
• C. measuring.
• D. ordering.

When children are developing the concept of measurement they, go throughseveral stages. The first stage is:

• A. seeing that standard units are more accurate than arbitrary units.
• B. pretending to measure by imitating older peers and adults.
• C. making comparisons of sizes and amounts.
• D. learning how to use arbitrary units.

Which of the following activities would probably lend itself best toordering and patterning?

• A. Putting a puzzle together
• B. Playing with clay
• C. Stringing beads of different sizes and colors
• D. Roller blading

In the first stage of graphing, which one of the following would NOT bean appropriate material?

• A. Beads
• B. Unifix Cubes
• C. Cube blocks
• D. Graph paper

Which one of the following processes involves ranking three or moreobjects in a sequence based on one or more attributes such as length,weight, or height?

• A. Contrasting
• B. Comparing
• C. Measuring
• D. Ordering

Making graphs proceeds in stages from concrete to abstract. Afirst-stage activity might be:

• A. taking paper squares and gluing them on a chart.
• B. drawing pictures on the chart.
• C. stacking blocks to represent a vote.
• D. coloring in squares on graph paper.

First, biggest, and last are words used when describing the process of:

• A. contrasting.
• B. comparing.
• C. measuring.
• D. ordering.

Problem solving, reasoning, communication, connections, and hands-onlearning can be applied and experienced through which of the following?

• A. Dramatic play
• B. Thematic and project approaches
• C. Integrated curriculum
• D. All of the above

Which one of the following skills visually shows the comparison betweenthings so that inferences can be made?

• A. Graphing
• B. Measuring
• C. Conversation
• D. Patterning

In this first-grade classroom, children are observing putting dirt incontainers and planting seeds, writing stories about plants, readingbooks about plants, drawing pictures of plants, and comparing andmeasuring the leaves from a variety of plants. There is a graph of MyFavorite Plant on the bulletin board. This type of curriculum planningis called teaching through:

• A. textbooks.
• B. variety of ideas.
• C. workbooks.
• D. a thematic unit or a project.

The kindergartners mark off the date on the class calendar. Thisactivity familiarizes them with one aspect of:

• A. personal time.
• B. culture time.
• C. social time.
• D. time duration.

Several children are in an area of the room that is set up like arestaurant. Some children are customers studying the day's menu andchecking the prices; others are waitresses and waiters taking orders andcollecting money; and others are the cooks pretending to measure and mixingredients. This type of activity in early childhood classrooms wouldbe considered to be:

• A. an excellent setup for applying mathematics and science understandings.
• B. a waste of time to children who should be memorizing math facts.
• C. a waste of time to children who should be reading their science textbooks.
• D. far from being in line with national standards for mathematics and science instruction.

The kinds of time a preschool child has to learn do not include which ofthe following?

• A. Personal experience
• B. The analog clock
• C. Social activity
• D. Culture