Number and Operations: Kindergarten

Assessment Title / Mathematical Idea Addressed / Learning Target / Descriptor
Bears in a Box / Counting to 20 / Connect number words and numerals, as well as coins, to the quantities they represent, and order numbers up to 20. / (1)Connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent using various physical models and representations
(3) Demonstrate how to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects (e.g., use one-to-one correspondence to count).
Apples and Bananas / Composing and decomposing numbers
to 10 / Uses strategies to find combinations of numbers with sums to 10 in real-world situations or with objects (e.g., dots on dominoes). / (3)Demonstrate how to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects (e.g., use one-to-one correspondence to count).
(6) Use direct modeling and role playing to solve simple addition and subtraction word problems.
(7)Decompose numbers less than 10 into parts using objects and record the combinations (e.g., 6 buttons can be decomposed into 2 and 4, 5 and 1, 6 and 0, 3 and 3)
Seven Objects / Counting Sets / Use strategies for counting and keeping track of quantities to 20 (e.g., counting all in a set, counting all in two sets, counting on) in situations with and without word problem contexts / 1) Connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent using various physical models and representations
2) Recognize zero as a whole number (e.g., describe a set with an absence of objects) and identify zero on the number line.
3) Demonstrate how to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects (e.g., use one-to-one correspondence to count).
Reading and Writing Numbers / Number/ Quantity / Connect number words and numerals, as well as coins, to the quantities they represent, and order numbers up to 20. / 1, Connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent using various physical models and representations.
3. Demonstrate how to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects (e.g., use one-to-one correspondence to count).
Swish / Subtraction / Uses strategies to find combinations of numbers with sums to 10 in real-world situations or with objects (e.g., dots on dominoes). / 6) Use direct modeling and role playing to solve simple addition and subtraction word problems.).
Estimation / Estimation / Connect number words and numerals, as well as coins, to the quantities they represent, and order numbers up to 20. / 1) Connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent using various physical models and representations.
2) Recognize zero as a whole number (e.g., describe a set with an absence of objects) and identify zero on the number line
Making Cents / Recognizing the value of coins / Connect number words and numerals, as well as coins, to the quantities they represent, and order numbers up to 20. / 5) Identify the value of pennies, nickels, and dimes in cents (e.g., 1 nickel has the same value as 5 cents or 5 pennies).
Comparing Pairs
( being revised) /
  • More/less
  • Number sense
/ Connect number words and numerals, as well as coins, to the quantities they represent, and order numbers up to 20 / 1. Connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent using various physical models and representations.
2.Recognize zero as a whole number (e.g., describe a set with an absence of objects) and identify zero on the number line.
4.Demonstrate how to count with understanding and recognize “how many” in sets of objects (e.g., use one-to-one correspondence to count).

Developed by the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP) with support by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0314898.