Math skills obtained in kindergarten provide the foundation for all math learning through your child's educational career.  

• • To count by rote at least to 100 but preferably a little beyond.

  • The concepts of equality, more, and less

  • To count backwards from 10 to 0

  • To recognize numbers

  • To be able to write numbers

  • To compose and decompose numbers 1-10 and 11-19 using tens and ones

  • To count objects one-to-one

  • 'To recognize basic shapes

  • to understand up, down, under, near, on the side, etc. (basic directions)

  • To understand the concepts of addition and subtraction with small numbers