Represent Addition as Putting Together (up to 10)

In this Kindergarten math skill, students explore the concept of addition by representing it as putting together two groups to make a new total, using numbers up to 10. Through pictures, objects, and simple stories, they begin to recognize how combining parts creates a whole, building the foundation for addition fluency.

• Number Sense and Operations
• Whole Numbers
• Addition
• Place Value
• Add
• Addend
• Adding
• Digit
• Sum

• K.OA.A.1 — Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
• K.OA.A.2 — Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
• AC9MFN05 — represent practical situations involving addition, subtraction and quantification with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies
• NY-K.OA.1
• NY-K.OA.2a

• Count Numbers (up to 10)

• Model Addition

• Use Facts with 5 on a Ten-Frame
• Count On to Add (within 20)