K.CC.A.2 — Count forward from a given number within the known sequence (instead of starting at 1).

What this standard asks students to do

K.CC.A.2 is a Kindergarten Common Core standard in the Counting & Cardinality strand. It asks students to: count forward from a given number within the known sequence (instead of starting at 1). Teachers typically address it during the know number names and the count sequence cluster, alongside the related standards listed below. FoxFish generates printable worksheets, auto-graded quizzes, and flashcard sets aligned to this standard in seconds.

Sample questions aligned to K.CC.A.2

1. Example 1

   Continue: 7, 8, 9, ___, ___.

2. Example 2

   Start at 15 and count five more numbers.

3. Example 3

   What comes after 23?

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Common student mistakes

Build distractors and reteach prompts around the errors students actually make on this standard.

• 1Restarting at 1 instead of continuing from the given number.
• 2Counting one number too many or too few (off-by-one error).
• 3Stopping at 10 when the count crosses into the teens.

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Related standards in this cluster

• K.CC.A.1Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
• K.CC.A.3Write numbers from 0 to 20 and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

Teacher guides for K.CC.A.2

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