The benchmark(s) of focus is the primary focus for student learning and instruction to be taught or reinforced and provides an intentional opportunity for students to work with that concept or skill.
MA.K.DP.1.1
Collect and sort objects into categories and compare the categories by counting the objects in each category. ...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on supporting work in counting.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes geometric figures that can be categorized using their defining attributes.
Clarification 3: Within this benchmark, it is not the expectation for students to construct formal representations or graphs on their own.
Supporting benchmarks either make a connection or may help students achieve the focus benchmark(s) and increase students’ opportunities to make connections within the subject or to other subjects. The information included in this section is not a comprehensive list, and educators are encouraged to find other supporting benchmarks.
MA.K.NSO.1.1
Given a group of up to 20 objects, count the number of objects in that group and represent the number of objec...
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on developing an understanding of cardinality and one-to-one correspondence.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes counting objects and pictures presented in a line, rectangular array, circle or scattered arrangement. Objects presented in a scattered arrangement are limited to 10.
Clarification 3: Within this benchmark, the expectation is not to write the number in word form.
MA.K.NSO.1.4
Compare the number of objects from 0 to 20 in two groups using the terms less than, equal to or greater than.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction focuses on matching, counting and the connection to addition and subtraction.Clarification 2: Within this benchmark, the expectation is not to use the relational symbols =,> or <.
SC.K.L.14.3
Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in...