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Kindergarten Math Scope and Sequence

8 units in teaching order: 57 lessons, about 28 weeks in all.

These units do not fill a whole school year. Use the order and the number of weeks to fit them into your own year.

The units week by week

  1. Weeks 1–3

    Position Words, Size, and Patterns

    1. Position words
    2. Find every one like it
    3. Biggest and tallest
    4. Put them in order by size
    5. What can we measure?
    6. What comes next?

    Standards, Common Core: K.G.A.1, K.MD.A.1, K.MD.A.2

  2. Weeks 4–8

    Counting to 10

    1. One for each
    2. Touch and count
    3. Write the numbers 0 to 9
    4. Count and write how many
    5. Make a group of that many
    6. Still the same number
    7. Color by number
    8. How many? Look fast
    9. Match them up: more, fewer, or the same
    10. More and fewer
    11. One more, one less
    12. Which number is greater?

    Standards, Common Core: K.CC.A.3, K.CC.B.4.a, K.CC.B.4.b, K.CC.B.4.c, K.CC.B.5, K.CC.C.6, K.CC.C.7

  3. Weeks 9–11

    Shapes All Around

    1. Name the shape
    2. Count the sides
    3. Flat or solid?
    4. Name the solid shapes
    5. Build shapes from pieces
    6. Mirror pictures

    Standards, Common Core: K.G.A.2, K.G.A.3, K.G.B.4, K.G.B.6

  4. Weeks 12–14

    Counting in Order to 20

    1. Write the numbers 11 to 20
    2. Count and write how many: up to 20
    3. Fill in the missing numbers
    4. Connect the dots in order
    5. Before, after, and counting back
    6. Count on from a number
    7. First, second, third

    Standards, Common Core: K.CC.A.2, K.CC.A.3, K.CC.B.4.c, K.CC.B.5

  5. Weeks 15–17

    Sorting, Tallies, and the Days of the Week

    1. Count each kind
    2. Tally marks
    3. Take a good guess
    4. Which is heavier?
    5. The days of the week

    Standards, Common Core: K.CC.B.5, K.MD.A.2, K.MD.B.3

  6. Weeks 18–20

    Adding and Taking Away Within 10

    1. How many altogether?
    2. Take away: how many are left?
    3. Adding stories: some more come
    4. Take-away stories: some go away
    5. Put-together stories: how many in all?

    Standards, Common Core: K.OA.A.1, K.OA.A.2

  7. Weeks 21–24

    Number Bonds and Partners of 10

    1. Number bonds to 5 and to 10
    2. Take apart 6 and 7
    3. Take apart 8 and 9
    4. How many more to make 10?
    5. Partners of 10
    6. Add and subtract to color
    7. Partners that make 20
    8. Odd or even?

    Standards, Common Core: K.OA.A.3, K.OA.A.4, K.OA.A.5

  8. Weeks 25–28

    Teen Numbers and Counting to 100

    1. Ten and some more
    2. Teen numbers on two ten-frames
    3. Build and draw a teen number
    4. Ten and how many more?
    5. Count to 50
    6. Count to 100 on the hundreds chart
    7. Start at any number and count on
    8. Count by tens to 100

    Standards, Common Core: K.CC.A.1, K.CC.A.2, K.NBT.A.1

Print the scope and sequence

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Scope and sequence (PDF)

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