Number Sense - Addition

Understanding the Equal Sign: The Foundation of Addition


The kindergarten learning activity helps students understand the meaning of the equal sign for future addition or subtraction lessons.

In This Lesson

Students will understand the meaning of the equal sign. They will know the meaning of the sign before learning more about addition.


 

Activity Prep

  • Download & print the PDF below

  • Writing tools (pencils, colored pencils, markers, etc.)


 

How to Use

  1. Read the instructions aloud with the teacher and write the answers in the boxes.

Note

  • Please sit with your students and read the instructions aloud together.

  • Please encourage them to say the sign names and answers aloud as they write them in the boxes.


 

Common Core

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4 (Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.)

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT. K.CC.B.5 (Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.)

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