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Mississippi Standards

Mississippi Kindergarten Math Standards

All 30 Mississippi math standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Mississippi Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

30 standards

Standards for Mathematical Practice

8 standards
K.SMP.1
Figure out what a counting or story problem is asking and keep trying, like acting out 3 frogs hopping away from 5 with counters.
K.SMP.2
Connect numbers to real things, like seeing that 4 apples and the numeral 4 show the same amount, and go back and forth between them.
K.SMP.3
Explain how they know an answer, like why 7 is more than 5, and listen to and ask about a classmate's way of counting.
K.SMP.4
Show a real situation with objects, fingers, drawings or a number sentence, like drawing 2 red and 3 blue balloons to find the total.
K.SMP.5
Pick helpful tools such as counters, ten frames, number paths or connecting cubes to count, add, subtract and compare.
K.SMP.6
Count carefully with one number for each object and use clear math words, like naming a circle, square or triangle correctly.
K.SMP.7
Notice how numbers are built, like seeing 10 and 4 inside 14, or that 5 can be split into 2 and 3 or 4 and 1.
K.SMP.8
Spot repeating patterns while counting and adding, like noticing that adding 1 always gives the next counting number.

Counting and Cardinality

7 standards
K.CC.1
Count out loud to 100, both one at a time and by tens.
K.CC.2
Start counting from any number, like 7, and keep going without going back to 1.
Common Core K.CC.2
K.CC.3
Write the numerals 0 to 20 and write the number that shows how many objects are in a group, with 0 for none.
Common Core K.CC.3
K.CC.4
Count a group by touching each object once, know the last number said tells how many, and know the next number means one more.
Common Core K.CC.4
K.CC.5
Count up to 20 objects in a line, grid or circle, or up to 10 scattered ones, and count out a given number of objects.
Common Core K.CC.5
K.CC.6
Tell whether one group of objects has more, fewer or the same number as another group, by matching or counting.
Common Core K.CC.6
K.CC.7
Look at two written numerals from 1 to 20 and tell which is greater, which is less, or if they are equal, like 14 and 17.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

5 standards
K.OA.1
Show adding and subtracting within 10 in many ways, such as objects, fingers, drawings, claps, acting it out, words or equations.
K.OA.2
Solve add-to, take-from, put-together and take-apart word problems within 10, with the unknown in any spot, using objects or drawings.
K.OA.3
Break a number up to 10 into two parts in more than one way, like 6 = 2 + 4 and 6 = 5 + 1, and record it.
Common Core K.OA.3
K.OA.4
Find the number that goes with any number from 1 to 9 to make 10, like 7 and 3, and show it with a drawing or equation.
Common Core K.OA.4
K.OA.5
Add and subtract within 5 quickly and accurately, like knowing 3 + 2 and 4 - 1 right away.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

1 standard
K.NBT.1
Break numbers 11 to 19 into ten ones and some more ones with objects or drawings, and record it with a drawing or equation like 15 = 10 + 5.

Measurement and Data

3 standards
K.MD.1
Talk about what can be measured on an object, like how long or how heavy it is, and name more than one for the same object.
Common Core K.MD.1
K.MD.2
Put two objects side by side to see which is longer, taller or heavier, and say how they differ.
Common Core K.MD.2
K.MD.3
Sort objects into groups, like by color, count how many are in each group, and put the groups in order by how many.
Common Core K.MD.3

Geometry

6 standards
K.G.1
Name the shapes of everyday objects and say where things are using words like above, below, beside and behind.
Common Core K.G.1
K.G.2
Recognize a shape by name even when it is turned sideways, upside down, big or small.
Common Core K.G.2
K.G.3
Tell flat shapes, like a square, from solid shapes, like a cube.
Common Core K.G.3
K.G.4
Compare flat and solid shapes in everyday words, like counting sides and corners or noticing sides of equal length.
Common Core K.G.4
K.G.5
Make models of real objects by drawing flat shapes and building solid shapes, like sketching a door or shaping a ball from clay.
K.G.6
Put simple shapes together to make a bigger one, like joining two triangles to make a square.
Common Core K.G.6

The official Mississippi documents

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