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Missouri Standards

Missouri Kindergarten Math Standards

All 28 Missouri math standards for kindergarten, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

28 standards

Number Sense

11 standards
K.NS.A.1
Count aloud from 1 all the way to 100, both one number at a time and by tens, like 10, 20, 30.
K.NS.A.2
Keep counting up from any starting number between 1 and 20, like starting at 7 and going 8, 9, 10.
K.NS.A.3
Count down to 1 from any starting number up to 10, like 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
K.NS.A.4
Read and write the numerals 0 to 20, and write the number that tells how many objects are in a group of up to 20.
K.NS.B.5
Count objects by touching each one once while saying one number word for it, in the usual counting order.
K.NS.B.6
Show that the last number said when counting tells how many there are, and that the total stays the same however the objects are moved or counted.
K.NS.B.7
Show that each next number in the count means one more object than the number before it, like 5 is one more than 4.
K.NS.B.8
Tell how many are in a small group of up to 5 objects at a glance, like the dots on a die, without counting them.
K.NS.B.9
Show that a number tells how many things are in a group, like 4 for a set of four blocks.
K.NS.C.10
Compare two or more groups of objects and tell which group has more, fewer or the same number as another.
K.NS.C.11
Look at two written numbers from 1 to 10 and tell which one is greater and which is less, like 8 is more than 5.

Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten

1 standard
K.NBT.A.1
Put together and take apart numbers from 11 to 19 as one ten and some extra ones, like 14 is a ten and 4 ones.

Relationships and Algebraic Thinking

4 standards
K.RA.A.1
Show adding and taking away with numbers up to 10, like joining 3 and 4 blocks or crossing out 2 of 6 drawn apples.
K.RA.A.2
Add and subtract within 5 quickly and accurately, like knowing 3 plus 2 and 4 minus 1 right away.
K.RA.A.3
Break apart any number up to 10 into two parts in more than one way, like 7 as 5 and 2 or as 4 and 3.
K.RA.A.4
Find the number that adds to any number from 1 to 9 to make 10, like 6 needs 4 more to make 10.

Geometry and Measurement

10 standards
K.GM.A.1
Name several things about an object that can be measured, like how long, how tall or how heavy it is.
K.GM.A.2
Compare two objects by a trait you can measure and tell which is longer, shorter, heavier or lighter.
K.GM.B.3
Talk about ideas of time, like morning, afternoon and night or yesterday and today, and know that clocks and calendars measure time.
K.GM.B.4
Name each of the seven days of the week, like Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
K.GM.B.5
Recognize and name a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter by looking at each coin.
K.GM.C.6
Name shapes and spot them in everyday objects, like a door is a rectangle, knowing a shape keeps its name whatever its size or which way it faces.
K.GM.C.7
Tell where objects are using position words like above, below, beside, in front of, behind and next to.
K.GM.C.8
Name and describe the features of shapes, like the number of sides or corners, and use them to sort a group of shapes.
K.GM.C.9
Draw or build simple flat shapes such as squares, circles, triangles, rectangles and hexagons.
K.GM.C.10
Join simple shapes into bigger shapes with hands-on pieces, like two triangles making a square.

Data and Statistics

2 standards
K.DS.A.1
Sort objects into given groups and count how many are in each group, like buttons sorted by color.
K.DS.A.2
Compare the counts of sorted groups using words like more, fewer and the same as.

The official Missouri documents

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