Counting and Cardinality (Kindergarten Standard)

Key Vocabulary for this Domain: (Want vocab to be precise and consistent)
- Add: To combine or join together
- Compare: To look for similarities or differences among numbers or their size
- Count: To say the numbers in order; to assign a value to a group of items based on one-
to-one correspondence (knowing when you say a number it represents an object)
- Difference: The amount by which one number is greater than or less than another
number. The difference can be found by subtracting, comparing, or finding a missing
addend (Addend+Addend=Sum)
- Fewer than: Less than
- Greater than: More than
- Numeral: A symbol that represents a number; 3 is the numeral that represents a count
of 3 objects (Students not responsible for this vocab word, they just have to understand
the concept)
- Number: A count or measurement (The verbal)
- Subtract: To take one number away from another number, to find the difference
between two numbers (Minuend-Minuend=Difference)
- Total (Sum): The result when two numbers are added together

Know Number Names and the Count Sequence

K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and tens

- Counting circles (The students stand in a circle facing each other, you give them a counting
sequence like 1-10, the students go around the circle each saying a number until they reach the
end of the sequence. Once the last student says the last number everyone will clap, and that
student will sit down. This process is repeated with the same counting sequence until only one
student is left standing www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Counting: Stairs, tiles, numbers of school days, calendar, number of kids, packers, bus riders

K.CC.2 Count Forward beginning from a given number within the known sequences (instead of
having to begin at 1)
- “One More” Concentration www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Number after BINGO www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Number line-up www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Rolling a dice and having them start at that number (or a deck of cards, 100s chart with
flipping a coin)

K.CC.3 Write numbers from 0-20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20
(with 0 representing a count of no object)
- Domino parking lot
- Bags of stuff
- Write the room
Real World Connections
- Money
- Finding your seat in an auditorium, stadium
- Time left
- Distance

Count to tell the number of Objects

K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to
cardinality using a variety of objects including pennies
(Cardinality – Knowing that when you count a group of objects, the last number I say represents
the whole group)
- The napping house www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Counting Mats www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Goody Bags www.illustrativemathematics.org

K.CC.5 Count to answer “How Many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line,
a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a
number from 1-20, count out that many objects
- Finding Equal Groups www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Count and label objects in the room
- Counting objects in the room and recording the numeral

Real World Connections

- Ten items or less line in a store
- Count money
- On a road trip, counting number of cars

Compare Numbers and Quantities

K.CC.6 Orally identify (without using inequality symbols) whether the number of objects in one
group is greater/more than, less/fewer than, or equal to the same as the number of objects in
another group, not to exceed 10 objects in each group
- Circling the greatest quantity (not writing the symbols) ex. 2 cats and 4 birds
- Which number is greater? Which number is less? How do you know?
www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Objects with different sizes, with same or different quantity

K.CC.7 Compare (Without using inequality symbols) two numbers between 1 “0” and 10 when
presented as written numerals
- Clip cards
- Part/Part/Whole
- Marbles in bags www.illustrativemathematics.org
- Choosing attributes about students and comparing them
- WAR – deck of cards/UNO cards

Real World Connections

- Buying items (Comparing costs)
- Spatial Sense

Resources
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Illuminations NCTM
- YouTube - Have Fun Teaching
- Khan Academy