First Grade Math Skils
First Grade Math Skils
- Identifies, represents, extends, explains, and describes patterns
- Creates, extends, and records patterns using a wide variety of materials and procedures including the number patterns 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Explores and explains patterns of addition and subtraction with and without the use of a calculator
- Explores patterns using a hundreds chart
- Collects data, models, and constructs graphs using real objects
- Gathers data, constructs, and interprets bar and pictorial graphs
- Makes a prediction, collects data, and compares results
- Explores and discusses “always,” maybe,” “sometimes,” and “never” events
- Uses nonstandard and standard units to explore length
- Compares weights of objects
- Explores and estimates capacity of various containers in nonstandard units
- Places correctly numbers on an analog clock
- Recognizes the hour-hand and minute-hand and simulates clockwise motion
- Tells time to hour, half hour intervals, and explores time to five-minute intervals
- Explores concepts of hot and cold using a thermometer
- Reads a calendar by naming months of the year and finding a particular date
- Recognizes open and closed figures
- Recognizes and identifies two-dimensional figures including triangle, square, rectangle, and circle
- Classifies two and three-dimensional figures according to characteristics (e.g., square, rectangle, circle, cube, prism, sphere, cone, and cylinder)
- Identifies congruent shapes and similarity of two geometric figures
- Identifies symmetrical objects and their lines of symmetry
- Models, names, and follows directions using positional words (e.g., over, under, beside, in front of, in back of, inside, outside)
- Uses multimedia resources to explore patterns, symmetry, and shapes
- Explores and explains patterns of addition and subtraction with and without the use of a calculator
- Uses manipulatives to explore different combinations of whole numbers, and writes the equations that accompany them
- Explores different concepts of addition and subtraction, and writes equations that accompany them
- Demonstrates that addition and subtraction are inverse operations
- Computes basic facts 0 to 10 for addition and subtraction with and without manipulatives
- Explores situations which involve a missing addend, subtrahend, and minuend
- Models, draws, and discusses story problems using addition and subtraction
- Models, draws, and discusses representations of story problems, and writes number sentences to accompany them involving addition and subtraction
- Identifies the value of coins (e.g., penny, nickel, dime, and quarter)
- Determines the value of like coins up to $1.00
- Determines the value of mixed coins up to $1.00
- Finds equal money amounts with different coin combinations up to $.25
- Counts forward and backward 0 to 100
- Identifies model using manipulatives, and writes numbers 0 to 100
- Associates names and numerals that accompany two-digit numbers
- Compares two-digit numbers using the terms: “more,” less,” “greater than,” “less than,” “equal to,” and “almost”
- Skip counts to 100 by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Identifies place value of a given digit in a three-digit number
- Represents fractions by using models and drawings
- Compares a whole to fractional parts
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