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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 6 of 12

Add & Take Away

Join and take away

What your child practices

Small story problems where some join or some leave (totals to 10), plus finding one more and one less.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.3(A); K.3(B) · joining to add and separating to subtract, and solving word problems within 10

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Adding puts groups together.
  2. Taking away means some go away.
  3. Count what is left or what you have in all.

Example: 3 birds sit on a branch. 2 more fly in. How many now? Start with 3. Count on 2 more: 4, 5. Answer: 5 birds

Add & Take Away in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 6 of 12 in Kindergarten Math, after Make 5 and 10 and before Count to 100.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    8 🐟 are here. 1 more swims in. How many now?

    🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟➕🐟
    • 10
    • 8
    • 9

  2. Question 2

    What is 1 more than 1?

    • 2
    • 1
    • 0

  3. Question 3

    3 🐸 are here. 1 hops away. How many are left?

    🐸🐸🐸
    • 2
    • 4
    • 0

  4. Question 4

    8 🐦 are here. 1 more flies in. How many now?

    🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦➕🐦
    • 9
    • 8
    • 10

  5. Question 5

    4 🐰 are here. 1 hops away. How many are left?

    🐰🐰🐰🐰
    • 3
    • 5
    • 2

  6. Question 6

    Zoe has 4 🧁 and gets 3 more. How many now?

    🧁🧁🧁🧁➕🧁🧁🧁
    • 5
    • 7
    • 8

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