What Does My Child Need To Know?
Here is a list of many, but not all, of the skills
your child will be learning this year. For a complete
list of the Common Core State Standards
please refer to the "useful links" tab.
Kindergarten
- Counting to 100 by ones and tens
- Identifying and writing numbers 0 to 20
- Comparing two numbers between 0 and 10
- Counting objects using one to one correspondence
-Identifying 2D shapes and describing their attributes
(ex. number of sides, corners)
-Finding the missing number in a sequence of numbers
-Identifying 1 more/1 less
-Counting backwards from 10
-Adding and subtracting using pictures and manipulatives
-Solving addition/subtraction word problems
1st Grade
- Solving basic addition facts using preferred strategies
(ex. doubles, doubles +1, ten facts)
-Solveing basic subtraction facts using a variety of strategies
(ex. number line, counting backwards, counting on)
-Relating addition to subtraction and vice versa
(ex. 3 + 2 = 5, 5 - 3 = 2, 5 - 2 = 3)
- Understanding place value and value up to the tens place
- Skip counting
-Comparing 2-digit numbers
-Finding the missing addend
(ex. 1 + __ = 6)
-Telling time to the whole hour
-Using math vocabulary words
(ex. addend, sum, digit, difference, fact families)
2nd Grade
- Building fluency with the addition facts up to 10+10
- Adding/subtracting up to 3-digit numbers with regrouping
-Identifying numbers as even or odd
-Understanding place value up to the hundreds place
(ex. expanded, written, standard forms)
-Building fluency with the basic subtraction facts
-Comparing up to 3-digit numbers using >, < = symbols
-Adding/subtracting 10 mentally from a 2-digit number
-Adding/subtracting 100 mentally from a 3-digit number
3rd Grade
- Rounding up to 4-digit numbers to any place value
- Understanding place value up to the ten thousands place
(ex. expanded, standard written form)
- Adding/subtracting multi-digit numbers with regrouping
-Understanding what multiplication is
- Memorizing the basic multiplication facts up to 10 x 10
-Solving one-step addition/subtraction/multiplication word problems
4th Grade
- Place value up to 1,000,000
(ex. expanded, standard, written form)
- Rounding multi-digit numbers to any place value
-Adding/subtracting multi-digit numbers with regrouping
-Finding factors and multiples
-Solving multi-step word problems
-Multiplying up to 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number
-Multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers
-Dividing up to a 4-digit dividend by a 1-digit divisor
5th Grade
- Multiplying up to 4-digit numbers by 3-digit numbers
(including both whole numbers and decimals)
- Solving expressions using the Order of Operations
-Identifying prime/composite numbers
-Prime factorization
-Place value
(whole numbers up to billions, decimals to thousandths)
-Rounding whole numbers and decimals
Division with up to a 4-digit dividend and 2-digit divisor
(including both whole numbers and decimals)
-Long Division with interpreting remainders
-Solving multi-step word problems
