What’s on the Sorting Things Out poster
12 entries in 2 groups.
Pick ONE rule, then put everything into groups by that rule.
- RULES YOU CAN SORT BY: colour, size, shape, how many holes, hard or soft, rough or sm…
- THINGS TO SORT: buttons, socks, toy cars, leaves, pasta shapes, building blocks
Sort the same pile twice by two different rules. That is the lesson — the rule is a choice.
Questions about the Sorting Things Out poster
- What’s on the Sorting Things Out poster?
- 12 entries in 2 groups. Pick ONE rule, then put everything into groups by that rule. RULES YOU CAN SORT BY: colour, size, shape, how many holes, hard or soft, rough or sm…; THINGS TO SORT: buttons, socks, toy cars, leaves, pasta shapes, building blocks. Sort the same pile twice by two different rules. That is the lesson — the rule is a choice.
- Who is the Sorting Things Out poster for?
- Sorting Things Out is filed under Kindergarten (ages 5–6), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting math, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Sorting Things Out poster?
- Tip out the button jar and ask: what rule did you sort by? A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Sorting Things Out belongs on the wall where that math work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Sorting Things Out?
- 2D Shapes, Counting by Tens and Counting to 100 sit alongside Sorting Things Out in the Kindergarten set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.2D ShapesCounting by TensCounting to 100
- Is the Sorting Things Out poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Sorting Things Out downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kindergarten set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Sorting Things Out poster print at?
- Sorting Things Out is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Sorting Things Out loses nothing.Printing guide
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