Ages 5 to 6
Kindergarten math: what your child learns, and how to help
Kindergarten math is mostly about counting, numbers to 20, and adding and taking away within 10. Here is what that means, where children often get stuck, and simple ways to help at home.
What your child learns in kindergarten
Counting
Count to 100 by ones and by tens. Count a group of up to 20 objects and know the last number said is how many.
Numbers 0 to 20
Write numbers 0 to 20. Compare two groups or two numbers: which is more, fewer, the same.
Adding and taking away
Add and subtract within 10 with fingers, objects and drawings. Know the pairs that make 10, like 3 and 7.
Teen numbers
See 11 to 19 as ten ones and some more ones, the first step toward place value.
Shapes and measuring
Name flat and solid shapes. Compare which is longer, heavier or holds more.
Based on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Your state or school may order topics differently.
Where children often get stuck
- Counting the same object twice, or skipping one
- Saying the counting words without matching one word to one object
- Reading 12 as "twenty-one"
How to help at home
- Count real things together: stairs, grapes, cars on the street.
- Play "how many more to make 10?" with fingers.
- Ask "how do you know?" when they answer, not just "right" or "wrong".
How Kidscient helps with kindergarten math
- It starts from your child's level, not their grade. A short, friendly check finds what your child can already do. Many children are ahead in some topics and behind in others.
- Homework help without answers. Your child snaps tonight's math homework and Curio helps with each problem by asking and hinting. Your child writes every answer. Code checks the arithmetic.
- Guided lessons on a whiteboard. Curio explains each step out loud while drawing it, then asks your child to try. Lessons open level by level; at the founding beta they start around the grade 4 level.
- Voice-first. Younger children who can't read or type yet can simply talk.
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