First Grade Links & Standards (Math)

Great Schools First Grade Math Milestones

Addition and Subtraction

How easily does your 1st grader add and subtract?

Place Value

Does your 1st grader understand the tens and ones places?

Word Problems

Can your 1st grader tackle word problems?

Subtraction

1.NBT.C.6

Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

Place Value

1.NBT.B.2

Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:

Showing Numbers in different ways

1.OA.B.3

Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.2 Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)