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Kindergarten math worksheets

Kindergarten is the year counting turns into arithmetic. These free printable worksheets start with objects a child can touch and end with written addition and subtraction within ten.

What this year is really about

The year's real work is quantity, not symbols. A kindergartner needs to count a group accurately, know that the last number counted tells how many, decide which of two numbers is bigger, and take apart small numbers into pairs of parts. Written sums are the last thing to arrive, not the first.

That is why the sheets below open with pictures. Counting objects, picture addition, and picture subtraction all keep the mathematics on the page where a child can point at it. Only once those feel easy does a numbers-only sheet stop being a guessing game.

Keep sessions short. A kindergarten page here holds a small handful of problems on purpose — that is a complete piece of focused practice at this age, and a longer page mostly teaches a child that math is something to endure.

Step 1 of 3

Start here

Counting real things, with the quantity visible on the page.

Step 2 of 3

Core kindergarten skills

Comparing, the number sequence, and first written facts within ten.

Step 3 of 3

Ready for more

The patterns that make first grade easier when they arrive.

Yours to change

Adjust any sheet to your child

If a sheet is too easy or too hard, change its level rather than its grade. Every worksheet prints with an answer key and a picnic basket code that reopens the exact same questions later.