Kindergarten students need to build solid foundations with number sense, learning to represent quantities of objects with numerals and comparing their value. They are also beginning to identify shapes and describing objects in the world using these new terms.

Wixie's Curriculum library includes over 70 Kindergarten math activities you can use for formative assessment purposes or tasks for student work at centers and in station rotations.

Teachers can assign Wixie activities directly to students, or customize to differentiate them for specific learners in their classroom. Instructions for students show in the Wixie interface and you can also record instructions for your emerging readers. 

Math Standards

Here are a few examples of the types of templates you will find in Wixie for specific math learning targets. Download a 1-page PDF containing these samples.

Know number names and the count sequence.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice writing numbers 0-20, identifying number names, counting on, and using numbers to represent quantities of objects. 

At your Wixie home page, open the Curriculum library to browse templates connected to this learning goal by opening the Math > Numbers and Operations>Numbers folders.

You can also find these using the Search field at the top with keywords such as: count, number, number sense, and quantity.

Count to tell the number of objects.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice counting out a given number of objects, recognizing the cardinalities of small sets of objects, and creating their own groups of objects of a specific number.

At your Wixie home page, open the Curriculum library to browse templates connected to this learning goal by opening the Math > Numbers and Operations > Numbers folder.

Search using keywords such as: count and cardinality, 

Compare numbers.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice comparing the value of numbers and objects using the words and symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to.

Browse for these templates in the same Numbers folder as the other number sense activities above or search using the keyword compare.

Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice adding and subtracting numbers and objects, representing quantities and numbers in different ways.

Browse: Curriculum> Math > Numbers and Operations folders > Computation. Search keywords like add and subtract.

Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice regrouping ones into blocks of ten to build an understanding of what place value means, building solid number sense foundations for addition and subtraction.

Browse Curriculum> Math > Numbers and Operations > Base Ten folder or search for base ten.

Identify, describe, and classify shapes.

Assign templates like these to get students to first practice identifying and naming squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, and hexagons as both simple geometric figures and shapes in the world around them.

Many files in the Curriculum library are multiple pages. For example, the first page of the Mother's Day Flowers templates asks students to record narration to identify the shapes and their relative positions on the page. On the next page, they are given the criteria for a performance task of creating flowers using a specific number of shapes, which they then paint or draw on the third page.

Browse Curriculum> Math > Geometry folder or search for shapes.

Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

Assign templates like these to get students to sort shapes, combine shapes to create composite shapes, and create shapes on their own.

Browse Curriculum> Math > Geometry folder or search for shapes.

Sort and classify objects.

Assign templates like these to get students thinking and comparing objects; identifying similarities and differences so they can sort and classify them. To find them, search keywords like sort and classify.

Describe and compare measurable attributes.

Assign templates like these to get students to practice describing and comparing objects by identifying which is larger/smaller, heavier/lighter, and taller/shorter as well as ordering multiple objects by size.

Download a 1-page PDF containing these samples.

Assign a Wixie template to your learners

When you find a template you want to use, use the three dots next to the file to choose Assign.

At the Assign dialog, choose both how long you want it available for students to begin, as well as exactly which classes, and which students you want to use the template.

If you aren't familiar with the process of assigning Wixie templates to students, click here for step-by-step directions.

Wixie templates and tools work for a range of learners

Wixie includes multiple templates for many standards and learning goals. Choose which works best for your learners based on their prior knowledge and understanding as well as technology ability. For example, students new to technology will find it much easier to click and drag to show understanding than having to draw using the paint tools.

The Curriculum library also includes multiple versions of the same activity; each having slightly different tasks so you can better differentiate for the range of learners in your classroom. Other activities ask students to complete the same task, but have different sets of images such as sports balls, toys, trucks, or candy to engage learners interested in different things. 

The media Library in the student tool also includes a Math folder filled with virtual manipulatives students can use to "play" with math concepts. 

Using Wixie to help students practice math concepts and skills not only helps you make math learning fun, your ability to view and assign work to students makes managing and evaluating progress easy.

Open-ended Math Projects

Wixie is way more than a template tool. With Wixie, students can write, draw, and record to demonstrate their mathematical understanding and comprehension in creative ways.  For example, students can capture images of math in the real world, write math stories, and create math designs that use measurement and geometry. 

Explore creative math lessons that get kindergarten learners making and applying their math knowledge.

Primary Math Curriculum Guide

We have collected the ideas on this page (along with links you can assign immediately) in our Primary Math Curriculum Guide.