Math Curriculum
Skills Required at the Beginning of 1st Grade:
- Sort and classify objects using one or more attributes
- Recognize and write numbers up to 100
- Tell when one number is greater or less than another
- Count orally by ones, five, and tens to 100
- Name ordinal numbers first through tenth
- Perform simple addition and subtraction
- Understand spatial relationships (top/bottom, near/far, before/behind)
- Compare quantities by estimating, weighing, and measuring
- Uses graphs to gather information
- Recognize patterns and shapes
- Tell time to the nearest half-hour
- Count money
- Recite the days of the week and the months of the year
Skills aquired in 1st grade:
- Understand greater than, less than, lighter than, heavier than, the same as, etc.
- Recognize and write numbers up to 100
- Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100
- Mentally add numbers to 10
- Add and subtract to 20
- Add and subtract with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
- Tell time to the hour and half hour
- Recognize shapes
- Identify, describe, and reproduce patterns with number, shapes, colors, or words
- Uses simple graphs to record information
- Recognize simple mathematical symbols (e.g. “+”, “=”, “>”,”<”)
- Read thermometers and use measuring tools like rulers