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Sample Curriculum

Aha!Math’s rich, research-based curriculum enables the teacher to mediate how and when it fits best into the instructional day: whether to reinforce instruction with the whole class, or for use in group settings or with individual students. It includes:

• Instruction — Modules for whole-class instruction on key math concepts and skills
• Lessons — Interactive concept review and fun practice
• Activities — Teacher-led, whole class or group activities for concept application
• Games — Educational math games for fluency development of critical math skills
• Quizzes — Evaluate students’ understanding of concepts covered in the curriculum

Here are a few curriculum samples from the units, each of which includes more than 30 lessons, activities and games. To fully experience the sample curriculum, please have your audio turned on.

Grade	Unit - Understanding Whole Numbers
K	Sample Game Fish for 20	Sample Game One Fish Two Fish
	Sample Activity How Many? How Much? (PDF 160 KB) Children will be able to visually see the difference between “How much?” and “How many?” and understand when to use each term. Children will use the term “How many?” to match number words to their numbers.

Grade	Unit - Understanding Addition and Subtraction: Facts to 18
1st	Sample Game All Aboard I	Sample Game Magic Tunnel
	Sample Activity Find My Family? (PDF 132 KB) Children will apply what they have learned about addition and subtraction and demonstrate how learning addition facts can help to solve subtraction facts.

Grade	Unit - Understanding Numbers to 1000
2nd	Sample Game Number Assembly I	Sample Game Number Assembly II
	Sample Activity Go Four It (PDF 168 KB) Children will apply what they have learned about reading and writing three­digit numbers and demonstrate how to read and write four­digit numbers.

Grade	Unit - Multiplication and Facts to 10
3rd	Sample Lesson Multiplication Chart	Sample Game River Crossing
	Sample Activity Fact Chart - Coloring the Multiplication Chart (PDF 460 KB) Students will identify meaningful patterns and properties of multiplication in order to produce a multiplication table that highlights the relationships among those properties.

Grade	Unit - Multiplication Facts: 11 and 12, Multiplication Algorithm
4th	Sample Lesson The Distributive Property	Sample Game Pet Rescue Hotel I
	Sample Activity Line Em Up (PDF 160 KB) The students will utilize the concepts and strategies covered in Unit 4 with an emphasis on estimating products of multi-digit and 2-digit factors.

Grade	Unit - Whole Number Division
5th	Sample Lesson Estimation of Quotients	Sample Game Space Station Repair
	Sample Activity Fair Sharing (PDF 219 KB) Students will use base ten blocks to solve division problems while they are simultaneously using the division algorithm. Students will achieve a greater understanding of the algorithm and the concept of division of whole numbers.