Kindergarteners Showing Off
Their Math Skills

The Common Core Standards raise some questions about what kindergarten children are capable of learning in math. This video addresses both this question and the question of whether Zig Engelmann should be considered an authority about what pre-first-graders can learn. Most of the children in the film were taught by Zig for two school years. Two of the children were in the preschool only one year as kindergarteners.

Although the children don't have a large repertoire of number-facts, they demonstrate understanding of operations for solving the different types of problems Zig presents.

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