Kindergarten
Counting and Cardinality
K.CC.1 I have 100 cotton balls. Can you count them two different ways?
K.CC.5 How many kindergarteners could fit under our table?
K.CC.6 If two coins are tossed, what could happen?
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
K.OA.2 There are five children in my family. How many could be boys and how many could be girls?
K.OA.2 My bag of candy has Skittles and M&M’s totaling 10. How many of each?
K.OA.2 There are 20 animal legs in the farmyard. Name the animals?
K.OA.2 There are 10 animal legs in the pen. Name the animals?
K.OA.2 There are __ people in a family. How many could be boys and how many could be girls?
K.OA.2 My box has 6 cookies in it. Some are Oreo’s and some are chocolate chip cookies. How many
oreo and how many chocolate chip cookies might there be?
K.OA.3 I have 10 balls in my basket. Some are yellow and some are blue. How many might be yellow
and how many might be blue.
Number and Operations in Base 10
Measurement and Data
K.MD.1 What can you find that is longer than a marker?
K.MD.1 What is heavier than this milk jug of water?
K.MD.1 What can you find that is taller than this marker but lighter?
K.MD.1 What can you find that is lighter than a penny?
K.MD.1 Find something in the room that is longer than this toy snake?
K.MD.1 What can you find that is lighter than a penny but heavier than a school box?
K.MD.1 What can you find that is small but heavy?
K.MD.1 I have five jacks on one side of my pan balance. What could I put on the other side to make it
balance?
K.MD.1 Can you find something that is longer/shorter that our _____?
Geometry
K.G.1 Make your own obstacle course by going over two things, under three things, and between two
things.
K.G.1 If I took three steps and finished near the clock, where did I start?
K.G.1 How many things in our classroom could you stand behind?
K.G.1 What are some things you can stand between?
K.G.1 Walk around the room-music stops-asks who is near the door? Between the tables? On the ABC
carpet? Left side of my desk?
K.G.2 What makes these shapes triangles?
K.G.2 What two shapes fit inside this larger shape?
K.G.2 Make a design with pattern blocks. What did you make?
K.G.2 In a bag, I can feel a solid object with 2 flat faces, sharp corners (vertices), and straight edges.
What solid object might this be?
K.G.2 I traced around one of the faces of a solid object. The shape had 4 sides and 4 vertices? What is
the object?
K.G.2 I traced around one of the faces of a solid object. The shape I traced had no edges or vertices.
What is the object?
K.G.2 Sam sorted these pattern blocks into two groups? What might the two groups be?
K.G.2 I made a picture using only squares and triangles? What might it look like?
K.G.2 In my bag, I can feel an object that has 2 flat faces and 4 sharp corners, what could it be?
K.G.2 I traced around one of the faces of an object and ended up with a square. What object did I
trace?
K.G.2 We stacked some objects to make a wall for Humpty Dumpty. What objects did we stack?
First Grade
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
1.OA.1 Draw a shape with three sides and 3 vertices. Use large paper clips to measure each side. What
1.OA.2 Draw a shape with three sides and 3 vertices. Use large paper clips to measure each side. What
is the sum of all three sides? Measure each side with small paper clips. What is the sum of all three
sides? Now compare the measurements. Explain/Prove why one measurement is greater than the
other.
Number and Operations in Base 10
1.NBT.1 Sally has 45 buttons. She finds 30 more. How many buttons does she have altogether? Show
me two ways to solve the problem.
1.NBT.2 A 2-digit number has more tens than ones. What could the number be? How do you know you
are correct?
1.NBT.3 I have 36 paper clips. Joe has 78 paper clips. How many more paper clips does Joe have than
me? How do you know you are right?
Measurement and Data
1.MD.2 What can you find in our classroom that is as long as your arm?
1.MD.2 What could you use in your pencil box to measure the length of the white board? Would this be
a good tool to measure the length of the hallway? Would it be a good tool to measure the width of the
hallway? Explain your thinking.
1.MD.2 Draw a shape with three sides and 3 vertices. Use large paper clips to measure each side. What
is the sum of all three sides? Measure each side with small paper clips. What is the sum of all three
sides? Now compare the measurements. Explain/Prove why one measurement is greater than the
other.
1.MD.2 What could you use to measure your arm?
1.MD.3 What are some things you do between the hours of 12 and 4?
1.MD.3 What do you do in the morning from 8 to 12?
1.MD.3 What days do we have PE? How many times during the month of September will we have PE?
Explain how you figured this out.
Geometry
1.G.1 Draw a shape with three sides and 3 vertices.
1.G.3 Use a circle. Divide it into two equal parts. If you give one equal part to a friend, what fraction do
you have left?
1.G.3 Use the same circle. Divide it into four equal parts. If you give one equal part to a friend, what
fraction did you give away?
1.G.3 Half of the people in a family are males. What might a drawing of this family look like?
Second Grade
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
2.OA.3 Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members . Show
me two different ways to prove whether it is odd or even. Write an equation to express how you proved
it was even or odd.
2.OA.4 Put these objects into an array. When you are finished, write an expression which represents
your total sum of objects.
2.OA.4 Four children each ran 7 laps around a basketball court. How many laps did they run in all?
Write an expression that represents your picture.
2.OA.4 The students in a second grade classroom ran the same amount of laps around a basketball
court. They ran a total of 28 laps. If each student in the class ran the same amount of laps, how many
students ran laps around the basketball court. Represent this in an expression.
Number and Operations in Base 10
Measurement and Data
Geometry
Third Grade
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
3.OA.1 The multiplication button is broken on your calculator. How can you find the sum of 3x5?
Number and Operations in Base 10
3.NF.1. Some fractions add up to ½. What might they be?
Measurement and Data
3.M.1.4 What could we use a yard stick to measure?
3.M.1.5 How many things can you find that are ½ inch long?
3.MD.7 What can you find that has an area of 30 cm.?
Geometry
3.G.2 If a hexagon is a whole. What other shapes can I use to make that
Fourth Grade
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
4.OA.2 I have 54 stickers. How many students could I evenly divide the stickers with? How many stickers
would each student receive?
Number and Operations in Base 102
Number and Operations-Fractions3
Measurement and Data
4.MD.1 Express the length of a board that is 4 ft. long in inches.
4.MD.3 What is the area of the living room that is 6 ft long and 5ft wide? Why would I need to know the
area?
4.MD.3 The area of the living room is 30 ft2. What is the length and width?
4.MD.3 The area of the family room is 48 ft2. What is the length and width?
4.MD.3 I have 36 feet of fencing. How many different rectangle pastures could I make with the fencing?
Which has the most area.
Geometry
4.G.1 Using the alphabet stencils. Pick 5 letters. Label the points, lines, and types of angles used in the
letters.
4.NF.1 List 3 equivalent fractions for the following fractions. Show me how you figured this out.
½
1/3
¼
¾
4.NF.3b If you and 3 of your friends are eating a pizza that has 8 pieces, what fraction will be left after
each person eats one piece? How many pieces can each person eat?
Fifth Grade
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base 10
Measurement and Data
5.MD.1 If Mrs. Fast’s entire garden space has an area of 125 yards, find a possible length and width of
her garden. Write your answers in feet.
5.MD.1 Mrs. Fast gave the class the formula p=2L+2W. Mrs. Fast than asked what would be the width
of her garden if the perimeter of her garden was 80 feet and the length is 25 feet. Write your answer in
yards.
Geometry