Good at Math® Foundations Unit 7: Measurement

Good at Math® Foundations is an 8 unit Preschool-PreK math curriculum designed for classroom and homeschool learning environments. Each unit includes thoughtfully structured skill guides, hands-on teaching tools, visual supports, games, center materials, independent practice, no-prep printables, and extension activities to deepen understanding. The skill guides are intentionally designed for you, the teacher, to guide learners through each skill focus and include a clear lesson goal, materials list, skill description and rationale, connections to future learning in Good at Math® Kindergarten, whole group practice, centers, games, and shelf work, movement and fine motor integration, and play. Good at Math® Foundations was created by an experienced early childhood educator and refined through real classroom and homeschool use to ensure it meets the developmental needs of preschool and pre-kindergarten learners. All lessons and materials are designed using Universal Design for Learning to support a wide range of learners and learning styles while building a strong, joyful foundation in math.

Unit 7: Measurement builds foundational measurement skills by helping children recognize, describe, explore, and compare the measurable attributes of familiar objects, including size, length, height, weight, and capacity. Children begin by exploring differences in size using the words big and small before learning to make direct comparisons using bigger, smaller, and same size. They then investigate length and height, identifying objects as long, short, or talland comparing objects using vocabulary such as longer, shorter, taller, and same. As the unit progresses, children explore weight by lifting and comparing objects, discovering that an object's size does not always determine how heavy or light it is. They also investigate capacity through filling, pouring, and transferring materials between containers, developing an understanding of full, empty, partially full, more, less, and same amount. Through building experiences, sensory exploration, sorting, movement, dramatic play, games, centers, and real-world observation, children learn to recognize measurable attributes, make direct comparisons, and use mathematical language to describe their discoveries. The unit culminates in meaningful play experiences that encourage children to apply their measurement and comparison skills naturally as they build, create, investigate, and solve everyday problems. This unit supports the development of observation, visual discrimination, spatial reasoning, mathematical vocabulary, problem-solving, estimation, and early measurement concepts while laying a strong foundation for future work with nonstandard and standard measurement. Within each skill focus, children are introduced to new concepts, practice them through whole group and movement-based experiences, engage in centers and shelf work, and demonstrate understanding through meaningful independent application. This unit includes multiple skill guides along with additional center and practice activities designed to reinforce and extend learning in developmentally appropriate ways.

With Good at Math® Foundations, you can take the guesswork out of your math block while confidently providing a developmentally appropriate, engaging, and thoughtfully sequenced introduction to early math skills, laying the foundation needed for future math success.

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Good at Math® Foundations will be a complete 8 unit curriculum, with a slated completion date of November 2026. The units will include: 
Unit 1: Spatial Awareness
Unit 2: Sorting & Classification
Unit 3: Patterns
Unit 4: Numbers 1-5
Unit 5: Numbers 6-10
Unit 6: 2D Shapes
Unit 7: Measurement
Unit 8: Early Operations

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