Represent Addition as Putting Together (up to 10)
Understand addition by putting groups together to make a total—up to 10.
Kindergarten - Math - Addition up to 10
About This Skill
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.
Skills & Topics
- Number Sense and Operations
- Whole Numbers
- Addition
- Place Value
- Add
- Addend
- Adding
- Digit
- Sum
Curriculum Alignment
- 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