Adds Single-Digit Numbers

Why it matters

Combining small quantities is the foundation of arithmetic and builds fluency with number relationships.

Builds toward this milestone

• understands addition as adding to and understands subtraction as taking away from. — Head Start ELOF

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What mastery looks like

• Finds the sum of two single-digit numbers, with manipulatives if needed.

How to observe it

• Given two small groups of objects, does the child count them together to find the total?

Accessibility

• Provide counters or a number line for children who are not yet adding mentally.

Activities

• Add the Dots
  • Single-Digit Addition Worksheet
• Addition Fact Chant

Worksheets

• Addition Facts to 10 — Practice
• Addition Within Five
• Subtraction Facts Within 5 — Practice

Learn first

• Counts to Ten

Evidence

• Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) — U.S. Office of Head Start · 2015 · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services