Virginia SOL K.CE.1

MathKindergartenComputation and Estimation

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

The student will model and solve single-step contextual problems using addition and subtraction with whole numbers within 10.

Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics

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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard

K.CE.1 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

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What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students build and break apart numbers to 10 in different ways. They find the missing part needed to make 5 or 10. They model and solve one-step joining, separating, and part-part-whole stories with up to 10 objects.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student quickly names the whole and both parts for quantities to 5, even when objects are arranged differently. They show several ways to make numbers to 10 and find missing partners for 5 or 10. They solve simple stories and explain their thinking with objects, drawings, words, or numbers.

Common Misconceptions

Students may think changing an object's position changes the total, or that the larger part must be named first. They may give only one decomposition, recount the known part, or confuse joining and separating situations.

How to Assess It

Give an exit ticket: “Show two ways to make 7. Fill in 3 + __ = 5. Draw and solve: 8 birds, 2 fly away.”

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs ten counters and two cups; call a number, then have students split that many counters between the cups in different ways.

  2. Ask, “How many ways can you make 5?” Have students draw each way and explain how they know none are missing.

  3. Play Make Ten: students draw a number card, place counters on a ten-frame, then name the number of empty spaces.

  4. Set up a snack problem with ten crackers; students act out some being eaten and find how many remain.

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