Virginia SOL K.NS.1.g

MathKindergartenNumber and Number Sense

The Standard

State the number after, without counting, when given any number between 0 and 30.

Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will utilize flexible counting strategies to determine and describe quantities up to 100.

Teacher's field guide

What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students identify the next number when they hear or see a number from 0 through 30. They recall it without restarting the count at 1.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student responds accurately within a few seconds and does not count from 1. They answer correctly across the range, including after 0, 9, 19, 29, and 30.

Common Misconceptions

Some students give the number before, repeat the shown number, or restart at 1. Decade changes cause errors, such as saying 10 after 19 or "twenty-ten" after 29.

How to Assess It

Flash cards showing 0, 6, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, and 30. Ask, "What number comes next?" and note responses given without counting from 1.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Build a number path from 0 to 31; place a toy on a called number, hop one space, and name the landing number.

  2. Show 18 and ask, "How do you know what comes next without starting at one?" Repeat with 9, 20, and 29.

  3. Play Next Number Snap: turn over a 0 to 30 card, and the first student to name the next number keeps it.

  4. Use numbered lunch tickets from 0 to 30; show one ticket and ask which ticket should be handed out next.

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