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Minnesota Standards

Minnesota Kindergarten Math Standards

All 20 Minnesota math standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Minnesota Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

20 standards

Data and Probability

2 standards
0.1.1.1
Spot and talk about what repeats or stands out in a set of information, like noticing that most classmates picked apples.
0.1.1.2
Show information by sorting objects, drawing pictures or making tally marks, then tell what the results show.

Spatial Reasoning

6 standards
0.2.3.1
Hold two objects side by side to tell which has more, less or the same of something, like length, and say why.
0.2.3.2
Name several things about an object that can be measured, like how long it is or how heavy it is.
0.2.4.1
Group objects by features like their shape, size, color or how thick they are.
0.2.4.2
Name and compare flat and solid shapes, like squares, triangles, hexagons, cubes, cones and spheres, telling how they are alike and different in everyday words.
0.2.4.3
Put simple shapes together and take them apart, name them, and know a shape stays the same shape when it is bigger, smaller or turned.
0.2.4.4
Name shapes seen in the world around them and tell where things are with position words, like beside, behind, above or in front of.

Patterns and Relationships

12 standards
0.3.5.1
Count objects by tagging each with one number word in order, know the last number tells how many and the next is one more, and name positions like third.
0.3.5.2
Count groups of up to 31 objects by bundling them into tens with ten-frames, cups or similar tools.
0.3.5.3
Read, write, compare and order numbers from 0 up to at least 31, shown with numerals, pictures and objects, and see 11 to 19 as a ten plus some ones.
0.3.5.4
Count up to at least 31, with and without objects, and count back from 20.
0.3.5.5
Tell which number is one more or one less than a given number, like 9 and 7 for 8.
0.3.5.6
Solve and show adding and taking away story problems within 10 using objects, drawings, pictures in their head or equations.
0.3.5.7
Break numbers up to 10 into two parts in different ways with objects or pictures, like 7 as 5 and 2 or 4 and 3, and record each with a drawing or equation.
0.3.5.8
Know addition and subtraction facts within 5 quickly and accurately, like 2 + 3 = 5 and 4 - 1 = 3.
Common Core K.OA.5
0.3.6.1
Tell whether one group has more, fewer or the same number of objects as another by matching, counting or using a number line.
0.3.6.2
Understand that the equal sign shows both sides have the same value, like 3 + 2 = 5.
0.3.7.1
Spot, make, finish and continue simple patterns of shapes, colors, sizes, numbers, sounds or movements that repeat, grow or shrink.
0.3.7.2
Notice patterns when counting and count by tens from 0 to 100.

The official Minnesota documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Minnesota's standards, not the official wording, which Minnesota Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.