Louisiana Kindergarten Math: What Students Learn
Kindergarten is where students build the number sense and early math skills they will rely on throughout their school years. Louisiana's Kindergarten math curriculum, aligned to Louisiana Student Standards Math, covers five major areas: counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, number and operations in base ten, measurement and data, and geometry.
Counting and Cardinality
Students learn to count to 100 by ones and by tens, count forward from any given number, and write numerals from 0 to 20. A key focus is connecting counting to cardinality — understanding that the last number counted tells you how many objects are in a group. Students also compare groups to decide which is greater than, less than, or equal to another, and compare written numerals between 1 and 10.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Kindergarten students are introduced to addition and subtraction using objects, fingers, drawings, and equations. They solve word problems, add and subtract within 10, decompose numbers into pairs, find the number that makes 10 when added to a given number, and fluently add and subtract within 5.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Students compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, laying the foundation for place value understanding in later grades.
Measurement and Data
- Describe measurable attributes of objects such as length and weight
- Directly compare two objects using a common measurable attribute
- Classify objects into categories and count and sort by category
Geometry
- Identify and describe shapes using positional language
- Name shapes regardless of size or orientation
- Distinguish between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes
- Analyze and compare shapes using informal language
- Build and draw shapes, and compose simple shapes to form larger shapes
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