Kindergarten math test: a free 10-question quick check
This free kindergarten math test has ten questions on the year’s main topics. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Sit beside your child and read each question aloud if needed. It is a quick check, not a full assessment.
In this quick check, every child gets the same ten questions, which represent a selection of the most relevant ones for kindergarten. Unlike the full Level Up assessment, this check does not adapt to a child’s answers. The result shows which questions your child missed, but it cannot identify foundational knowledge gaps. For the full picture, the Level Up assessment adapts to each answer and finds the earliest skill that is missing. It is included in the free trial.
10 questions, about 10 to 15 minutes. Skipping is fine. Nothing is saved.
Print it instead
The same ten questions as a PDF, with a separate answer key.
What the questions cover
The ten questions sample kindergarten: counting by tens and counting on from a number, counting counters in a ten frame (a box of two rows of five), a teen number, adding in two picture stories, naming shapes and comparing length. Most questions show a picture. Three ask whether another child’s counting or number sentence is right, and two ask your child to type a number.
The whole year covers these areas:
Counting and writing numbers
Saying the numbers in order and writing them. By the end of the year your child counts to 100 by ones and by tens, and writes the numbers from 0 to 20.
Counting objects: how many?
The first big idea of kindergarten: the last number you say when you count tells how many there are. Your child counts objects in a line, in rows, in a circle or scattered on a table.
Comparing numbers
Which group has more, which has fewer, or are they the same? Your child compares groups of objects, then compares two written numbers up to 10.
Adding and subtracting within 10
Addition as putting together and subtraction as taking away, shown with fingers, objects, drawings and short stories. The numbers stay at 10 or below.
Teen numbers
The numbers 11 to 19 are ten ones and some more ones. This is the first step toward place value (the idea that where a digit sits tells what it is worth), which 1st grade builds on.
Shapes and position
Flat shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles and hexagons) and solid shapes (cubes, cones, cylinders and spheres), named at any size and turned any way.
Measuring and sorting
Describing and comparing objects by length or weight, then sorting objects into groups and counting each group.
Every topic of the year, explained for parents, is on the kindergarten math page.
What you see at the end
The score, then every question with your child’s answer, the correct answer and a worked solution. A short message explains what a similar score usually means for kindergartners on our full assessment. Treat it as an indication: ten fixed questions cannot measure where a child stands.
Common questions
What math should a kindergartner know?
By the end of kindergarten: counting to 100 by ones and by tens; counting up to 20 objects and saying how many; writing numbers to 20; comparing numbers to 10; adding and subtracting within 10, with quick facts within 5; teen numbers as ten ones and some more ones; and naming flat and solid shapes. The kindergarten math page explains each topic for parents.
Is this kindergarten math quiz the same for every child?
Yes. Every child gets the same ten questions, and they do not change as your child answers. That makes it quick, but it can only show which questions were missed, not why. For a full kindergarten math assessment, the Level Up assessment asks about 30 to 40 questions on a computer or tablet and adapts to each answer.
Is there a printable kindergarten math test?
Yes. The same ten questions come as a PDF, with a separate answer key that has the worked solutions.
What if my child gets most of it right?
That is a good sign for the topics it covers. Ten questions cannot cover the whole year, and this check has nothing on comparing numbers, subtracting, number pairs that make 10 or solid shapes. A strong score is a reason to check those, not to skip them.