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K.OA.1 (Mathematics)


Standard Identifier: K.OA.1
Content Area: Mathematics
Grade: K
Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Cluster:
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

Standard:
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

Footnote:
Drawings need not show details, but should show the mathematics in the problem. (This applies wherever drawings are mentioned in the Standards.)

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