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

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