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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
Weeks 1–3
Position Words, Size, and Patterns
- Position words
- Find every one like it
- Biggest and tallest
- Put them in order by size
- What can we measure?
- What comes next?
Standards, Common Core: K.G.A.1, K.MD.A.1, K.MD.A.2
Weeks 4–8
Counting to 10
- One for each
- Touch and count
- Write the numbers 0 to 9
- Count and write how many
- Make a group of that many
- Still the same number
- Color by number
- How many? Look fast
- Match them up: more, fewer, or the same
- More and fewer
- One more, one less
- 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
Weeks 9–11
Shapes All Around
- Name the shape
- Count the sides
- Flat or solid?
- Name the solid shapes
- Build shapes from pieces
- Mirror pictures
Standards, Common Core: K.G.A.2, K.G.A.3, K.G.B.4, K.G.B.6
Weeks 12–14
Counting in Order to 20
- Write the numbers 11 to 20
- Count and write how many: up to 20
- Fill in the missing numbers
- Connect the dots in order
- Before, after, and counting back
- Count on from a number
- First, second, third
Standards, Common Core: K.CC.A.2, K.CC.A.3, K.CC.B.4.c, K.CC.B.5
Weeks 15–17
Sorting, Tallies, and the Days of the Week
- Count each kind
- Tally marks
- Take a good guess
- Which is heavier?
- The days of the week
Standards, Common Core: K.CC.B.5, K.MD.A.2, K.MD.B.3
Weeks 18–20
Adding and Taking Away Within 10
- How many altogether?
- Take away: how many are left?
- Adding stories: some more come
- Take-away stories: some go away
- Put-together stories: how many in all?
Standards, Common Core: K.OA.A.1, K.OA.A.2
Weeks 21–24
Number Bonds and Partners of 10
- Number bonds to 5 and to 10
- Take apart 6 and 7
- Take apart 8 and 9
- How many more to make 10?
- Partners of 10
- Add and subtract to color
- Partners that make 20
- Odd or even?
Standards, Common Core: K.OA.A.3, K.OA.A.4, K.OA.A.5
Weeks 25–28
Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
- Ten and some more
- Teen numbers on two ten-frames
- Build and draw a teen number
- Ten and how many more?
- Count to 50
- Count to 100 on the hundreds chart
- Start at any number and count on
- 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
The same table on paper, with a column for your own dates and a box to check off when you have taught a unit.
Scope and sequence (PDF)The printable scope and sequence comes with the paid Teacher plan.