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.NSO.2.2
Represent whole numbers from 10 to 20, using a unit of ten and a group of ones, with objects, drawings and exp...
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.3.1
Explore addition of two whole numbers from 0 to 10, and related subtraction facts.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes objects, fingers, drawings, number lines and equations.
Clarification 2: Instruction focuses on the connection that addition is “putting together” or “counting on” and that subtraction is “taking apart” or “taking from.” Refer to Situations Involving Operations with Numbers (Appendix A).
Clarification 3: Within this benchmark, it is the expectation that one problem can be represented in multiple ways and understanding how the different representations are related to each other.