Common Core Math · Kindergarten
Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
Why water teaches this standard well
Word problems ask how many cups of water are left in a watering can after some are used, or how many total fish are in a pond after more swim in, all within 10. Drawing the cups or fish makes the water context concrete for students who are still building number sense.
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Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten math lesson using watering-can story problems within 10 to practice addition and subtraction and to show why morning watering saves water.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 40-minute kindergarten lesson where students build a tall block water tower and a short one, test which sends water farther down a tube, and count the blocks in each.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 40-minute kindergarten art lesson where children count and glue blue paper strips end to end to build one class collage of the pipe path from the tank to the sink.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten careers lesson about the worker who brings a water tanker to a street while the pipe is replaced, with four counting problems.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 25-minute kindergarten lesson where students use a ten-frame and counters to solve addition and subtraction stories about drops saved when a classroom faucet is fixed.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students compare a sunny puddle and a shady puddle measured in paper squares at two times of day and say where the water went.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students describe and compare a cup, a bottle, and a jug at a library refill station by height, weight, and how many cups they hold.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet in which students draw and count water drops that form, join, and dry on a cold bus window, adding and subtracting within ten.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten careers worksheet about a water lab tester's sample tray, with nine read-aloud items on counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting within 10.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A read-aloud kindergarten worksheet where students count holes, drips, and patches within 10 to help a repair crew plan the fix for a leaking school pipe.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten gym water-station worksheet with nine counting, adding, and comparing questions within ten and one question on why the body needs water.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet set on the day a made-up town's taps are off, with counting and take-away items about the water jugs a truck delivers and which jobs come first.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort pond pictures into animals and trash, count and compare each group, and solve a subtraction story about picking up litter.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students count fire hydrants along a street, solve addition and subtraction stories about two streets, and count out a given number.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten health worksheet where students count and compare a character's water breaks across a school day and answer simple water-safety questions.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten math worksheet set at a fictional water tower on Cedar Lane, where students count, add, subtract, and compare buckets, pipes, and houses within 10.
Kindergarten Math problem set
Eight kindergarten word problems within ten about a truck delivering drinking-water jugs to a camp with no pipe from town, with fully worked counting solutions.
Kindergarten Math problem set
A read-aloud kindergarten problem set where students add, subtract, and compare within 10 while a crew counts pipe pieces for a new park drinking fountain.
Kindergarten Math problem set
A kindergarten math set where students add and subtract raindrop stickers on a class rain gauge chart across one week, building a running total within 10.
Kindergarten Math problem set
A kindergarten math set where students count cups poured into a dog's water bowl and a birdbath across three days, comparing totals and adding within 10.
Kindergarten Math problem set
A kindergarten math set where students count, add, subtract, and compare drips from a fictional cabin's leaky faucet before and after it gets fixed.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten relay activity where small groups count out an exact number of litter pieces from a pretend creek, tracking how many pieces remain within 10.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten movement activity where students compare two pool-noodle downspouts by length, race pom-pom raindrops down them, and solve a debrief subtraction story.