Mathematics Assessment for Pre Schoolers

1. Identifies names and draws a circle, square, rectangle and triangle when shown an example.
2. Identifies some three-dimensional objects.
3. Sorts objects, groups into sets and tells what the objects have in common.
4. Builds groups or sets that have more than, less than and equivalent quantities and tells which have more or less.
5. Pairs and counts objects using one-to-one correspondence (eg one napkin for each child at snack time)
6. Counts orally from one to twenty.
7. Counts objects in a set orally one-by-one from zero through ten.
8. Constructs, identifies and names sets of objects zero through ten.
9. Identifies and names numerals zero through ten - in and out of sequence.
10. Matches sets of objects to numerals zero through ten.
11. Points to objects and names their ordinal position - first through fifth.
12. Writes numerals zero to ten, in and out of sequence, on unlined paper.
13. Identifies and names sizes such as big, bigger, small, smaller, smallest.
14. Identifies and names lengths such as long, longer, longest, short, shortest.
15. Puts objects in graduated order from shortest to tallest, thinnest to thickest.
16. Identifies a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
17. Completes and constructs a simple patern eg. car, block, car, block.
18. Demonstrates (with objects) spatially related terms such as, on, above, below, beside, under, on top of, and over.
19. Identifies the days of the week and months of the year.