Kindergarten Math Courses - California Curriculum

By year-end, California Kindergarteners should count to 100, understand basic addition and subtraction within 10, recognize shapes, and compare objects by measurable attributes like length or weight.

Encourage counting during daily activities, practice shape recognition with household objects, use snacks for simple addition/subtraction, and engage in measurement comparisons during playtime.

California Kindergarten math assessments are typically observational and activity-based, focusing on a child's ability to demonstrate understanding through hands-on tasks and verbal explanations.

Learning shapes in Kindergarten builds spatial awareness, helps with object recognition, and lays the foundation for more advanced geometry concepts in later grades.

The curriculum builds number sense, introduces basic operations, and develops problem-solving skills, creating a strong foundation for the more complex math concepts introduced in first grade.