Number Sense IEP Goal Bank

Number sense begins with rote counting (where you count numbers in a list) and counting objects (building 1:1 correspondence). According to the Common Core, students should have mastered those skills by the end of elementary school, along with reading and writing numbers and answering questions about place value. By middle school, students should be on rational numbers, decimals, and powers of 10– and by high school onto the properties of exponents. Many students with disabilities master number sense at a slower rate, requiring modification of grade level standards to address their needs or looking back at the earlier grades for inspiration. The pages below have Common Core aligned goals curated for each grade– but if you have a student struggling with number sense, check out the elementary goals first to get a sense of where the foundation of number sense begins and then move onto the middle or high school goals.