Maine State Standards for Mathematics: Kindergarten

ME.A. Number: Students use numbers in everyday and mathematical contexts to quantify or describe phenomena, develop concepts of operations with different types of numbers, use the structure and properties of numbers with operations to solve problems, and perfor

A.1. Whole Number: Students understand and use number notation and place value to 1000 in numerals.

A.1.a. Read and write numbers to 1000 using numerals.

A.1.b. Recognize the place values of digits in numbers (hundreds, tens, and ones).

A.1.c. Compare and order one-digit, two-digit, and three-digit numbers.

A.2. Whole Number: Students understand and use procedures to add and subtract whole numbers with one and two digits.

A.2.a. Use and explain multiple strategies for computation.

A.2.b. Use an operation appropriate to a given situation.

A.3. Rational Number: Students recognize unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, and 1/3.

ME.B. Data: Students make measurements and collect, display, evaluate, analyze, and compute with data to describe or model phenomena and to make decisions based on data. Students compute statistics to summarize data sets and use concepts of probability to make

B.1. Measurement and Approximation: Students understand and use units of time, temperature, and money.

B.1.a. Apply and use sequences of hours in a day, days in a week, and months in a year.

B.1.b. Tell time to the hour and half hour.

B.1.c. Identify and give the value of different coins.

B.1.d. Find the total value of collections of coins up to $1.00.

B.1.e. Read temperature on thermometers with scales marked with one degree intervals.

B.2. Data Analysis: Students read, construct, and interpret picture graphs.

ME.C. Geometry: Students use measurement and observation to describe objects based on their sizes and shapes; model or construct two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects; solve problems involving geometric properties; compute areas and volumes based on obj

C.1. Geometric Figures: Students recognize, classify, and create geometric figures in two and three dimensions.

C.1.a. Identify shapes in the physical environment.

C.1.b. Classify figures as circles, triangles, and quadrilaterals by focusing on their properties.

C.1.c. Create shapes by using objects to combine and decompose other shapes.

C.2. Geometric Measurement: Students understand how to measure length and capacity and use appropriate units.

C.2.a. Measure length and capacity by direct and indirect comparison.

C.2.b. Measure the length and capacity of objects using non-standard units.

C.2.c. Measure the length of objects to whole inches and centimeters.

ME.D. Algebra: Students use symbols to represent or model quantities, patterns, and relationships and use symbolic manipulation to evaluate expressions and solve equations. Students solve problems using symbols, tables, graphs, and verbal rules choosing the mos

D.1. Symbols and Expressions: Students understand how to represent quantities as simple expressions using addition and subtraction.

D.1.a. Show that any quantity can be represented by multiple equivalent expressions where each represents the quantity ten.

D.1.b. Know that addition is commutative and apply this understanding in computation and problem-solving.

D.1.c. Know that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and apply this understanding in computation and problem-solving.

D.2. Equations and Inequalities: Students understand that the equal sign means, ''is the same as.''

D.2.a. Identify true and false number sentences.

D.2.b. Describe what makes number sentences true or false and apply this knowledge.

D.2.c. Find solutions for unknowns in simple open number sentences such as 12 = 4 + [ ].

D.3. Functions and Relations: Students understand how to create, identify, describe, and extend patterns given a pattern or a rule.

D.3.a. Describe, extend, and create repeating patterns.

D.3.b. Describe, extend, and create growing patterns.