Kindergarten Math Lessons

Our hands-on math lessons help learners count, recognize shapes, understand addition and subtraction, and more! These lessons come from our complete, standards-aligned math program, Amplify Desmos Math.

Grades: Kindergarten

• Math in Our World

  Students begin to explore and use tools to reflect mathematical thinking, from counting cubes and pattern blocks to the number of hats and shoes in Skye's room! They'll ask questions about groups of objects–like why bigger doesn't mean more–and build their understanding of quantities. Your students will match groups of objects, compare quantities, and talk to their classmates about what they notice and wonder!

• Connecting Cubes
• Skye’s Style
• Matching Groups
• Designing Shoes With Skye

• Numbers 1–10

  Students determine, represent, and compare groups of up to 10 objects and images. They'll learn to represent spoken number words using fingers, see what happens when they rearrange counters, and use compare words like more, fewer, and same. In Forest Friends, your class will help animals find the group of food that has more or fewer and explain their thinking. These lessons can be taught alone or in a sequence! If you teach them in order, your students will start with Investigate: Cafeteria Math, where they'll listen to a story to explore math all around them! They'll see salads with mixed-up ingredients, count quantities of dumplings, and even see groupings of food. See the full sub-unit here.

• Investigate: Cafeteria Math
• Fingers as Math Tools
• Moving and Grooving
• More, Fewer, or the Same
• Fingers and Counters
• Comparing Words
• Forest Friends

• Flat Shapes All Around Us

  Students identify and describe shapes like circles, triangles, rectangles, and hexagons. They'll sort real-world objects and shapes into groups, learn to classify two-dimensional shapes, and compare their traits–from the lengths of rectangles to the size of triangles.

• So Much Sorting
• What’s That Shape Called?
• Another Shape

• Understanding Addition and Subtraction

  Students understand addition as putting together groups to determine a total. They will explore stories to learn how to count images and objects, represent addition and subtracting with objects, and determine the total or difference in a given problem. Your students will describe what they notice about groups of cubes, organize the library's books by topic, and count how many buses arrive and leave the bus depot. These lessons can be taught alone or in a sequence! If you teach them in order, your class will start with Investigate: Casey's Town. They'll spend the day with Casey and her dad, and meet members of the community, from the librarian with her shelves of books, to the park ranger who shows them different plants and animals. See the full sub-unit here.

• Investigate: Casey’s Town
• How Many Objects?
• How Many Objects in Pictures?
• How Will You Count?
• What Does It Mean to Add?
• What Does It Mean to Subtract?
• The Bus Depot

• Make and Break Apart Numbers Within 10

  Students understand how to compose and decompose numbers within 10. They'll use 10-frames and fingers to explore different strategies for composition and decomposition. Your students will help an octopus eat 8 clams in different compositions, and fill out ten frames with what they see through their telescope!

• Harry Explores the Ocean
• Harry’s Hamster Wheel
• Harry Explores Space
• Showing What We Know About 10

• Numbers 0–20

  Students learn to count groups of up to 20 images. They'll understand how to represent teen numbers on fingers and 10-frames and how to match 10-frames with written numbers (by designing their own jerseys!). Your class will explore strategies for keeping track of images while counting. These lessons can be taught alone or in a sequence! If you teach these lessons in order, your class will start with Investigate: Packing Snacks, where they'll compose and decompose groups to pack different lunch boxes for the school soccer team. See the full sub-unit here.

• Hockey Jerseys
• Investigate: Packing Snacks
• Getting Ready for the Game
• How Many on the Field?
• Pass, Shoot, Score
• Jersey Jam!
• People at the Park
• Persistent Practice

• Solid Shapes All Around Us

  Students understand how to describe, compare, and compose three-dimensional shapes. They'll identify three-dimensional shapes around the, like cereal boxes and houses. Your class will build and describe cones, cubes, cylinders and spheres, as well as categorize and compare shapes.

• What’s That Shape?
• Building Solid Shapes
• Putting Solid Shapes Together

• Personalized Learning and Intervention

  Differentiate instruction for your students and make math accessible with targeted small group intervention and personalized practice!

• Kindergarten: Personalized Learning and Intervention

• Centers and Misc. Activities

  Centers are engaging, hands-on games for students to play collaboratively to strengthen their understanding of key skills and concepts.

• Kindergarten: Centers
• Decorate a Winter Wonderland!
• Decorate a Fall Scene