First Grade Math

Below is a list of first grade level expectations with links to the Internet for practicing math skills. If there is something you can’t find here, you’ll definitely find it by visiting

Paul Becher’s comprehensive Math Resources site at W.I.T and Wisdom for first grade

by clicking on the kitten below!

 

Click on a kitten below to practice a math skill.

Read, write and count beyond 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s

Number Time - Mend the Number Square (Practice counting to 100 by placing missing numbers on a little bug on the hundreds chart)

Math Spelling 11-19 (Practice spelling numbers 11 through 19)

Math Spelling by 10s (Practice spelling numbers by counting by 10s)

Ambleweb – Guess the number (Click on guessthenumber.html)

Give a Dog a Bone (Locate numbers on a number grid)

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Begins to memorize addition and subtraction facts, but shows mastery of facts with 0 and 1

More links at Math Fact Practice

Count Hoots (Practice adding and subtracting up to 6. Practice involving finding addends and sums)

Count Us In – Bus Addition (Put children on a bus to practice addition facts to 10)

Count Us In – Subtraction Bowling (Roll a bowling ball to knock down pins to practice subtraction facts to 10)

Test the Toad (Practice addition and subtraction facts to 15)

Count Us In – Numbers (The player has to move a frog across a pond always using the next highest number.)

Bug Addition (Practice writing and solving addition problems to 20)

Mystery Subtraction (Match a subtraction problem to its difference up to 20)

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Doubles – recall 1-10

Count Us In – Sheep Counting (The player has to move the sheep from left to right until there are the same number of sheep in each paddock.)

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Place value – model, understand and use tens and ones when calculating (e.g. – 12+12 is the same as 10+10+2+2)

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Identify and tell value of penny, nickel and dime

Money Program (Choose easy - Practice buying items using pennies, nickels and dimes up to $1.00)

Money Games (Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters) Choose from a variety of games to match the coin, name the coin, count nickels, count dimes or count 2 coins)

Play to Learn (Choose amount of coins and kinds of coins to practice counting)

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Measure and estimate to nearest unit

Measure It! (Choose easy – Practice measuring items using centimeters or inches)

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Time – tells and writes time to the hour and half hour

Harcourt School Publishers (Practice telling time to the half hour)

Clockres (Explore telling time with an analog and digital clock)

Stop the Clock (Practice matching analog time to digital time to the half hour–records time to complete the lesson)

Interactive Clock (Click on clock from the list - Explore telling time with this clock)

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Make and explain a simple bar graph

Amble Graph (Click on Grapher from the list about half way down- Create a graph with the help of an adult – helpful for discussing parts of a graph and easy to do)

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Problem solving – illustrate and explain how a problem was solved

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Patterns – identify and extend repeating patterns

Make a Pattern - Exploration (Make different patterns with units of varying size – need an adult to show how to use)

Patterns in Nature (This web site gives examples of patterns found in nature – fun to explore and discuss)

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Geometry – draw and describe shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square and oval

Buzzing with Shapes (Spin the spinner to determine the number of sides. Then move the counter to a shape with that many sides – can play with two players or take both turns.)

Pattern Blocks – Exploration (Use pattern blocks to create patterns – need an adult to show how to use activity)

Online Geoboard – Exploration (Explore different shapes by creating shapes using an online geoboard – need an adult to show how to use activity)

MegaShapes – Exploration (Investigate properties of different shapes)

I Know That – Dam Jammer (When you enter the site it will ask you to register. By clicking maybe later, you will be able to enter the practice sites)

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Information and Technology Literacy Standards met for First Grade

  • Uses appropriate terms in oral communication: disk, CD-ROM, click, double-click, file, print, open/exit, Internet, calculator
  • Recognizes and uses appropriately: Backspace, Shift, Numeric Keys

A.4.1 Use common media and technology terminology and equipment

  • Logs on and uses a password

A.4.2 Identify and use common media formats

  • Participates in teacher directed Internet activities

A.4.4 Use a computer and communications software to access and transmit information

Last updated January 20, 2004

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