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Welcome to the 1st Grade Math Summer Site!
We created this page to give you a sneak peek at the upcoming school year and to provide helpful resources to support your child’s preparation.
Scroll down to explore activities and tips designed to get your child ready for success in class.
We’re excited to partner with you this fall—see you soon!
– The WT Schools Math Department
What We Value and What To Expect:
Maintaining a growth mindset ourselves, we continually refine our approach in order to foster a deep mathematical understanding in our students. Beyond just finding the correct answer, this year, students will engage deeply with mathematical concepts, using and exemplifying those ideas through the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) framework. Throughout this year, students will model and explain concepts with manipulatives, drawings, and mathematical expressions, making connections along the way.
To help achieve these goals, we will use Eureka Math² as our main resource. Eureka Math² is an interactive and highly regarded program designed to build lasting math knowledge. Families, click HERE for more information about Eureka Math².
Preparing for Next Year:
Throughout the year, students will work through six modules (or chapters) in sequential order. To ensure they are best prepared, it’s important that certain prerequisite skills are in place. Below, you'll find a list of these key skills, aligned with each of next year’s modules. Also below is information about the number core, an essential foundation of working with mathematics, as well as, activities to help develop understanding.
The number core through 10.
Level 1 strategy of counting all
Modules 2 and 3 Prerequisite Skills
Represent subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Count forward from a number other than 1.
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals by using the terms greater than, less than, or equal to.
Compose and decompose teen numbers 11 to 19 as ten ones and some more ones.
Record teen numbers as ten ones and some more ones with a drawing or number sentence.
Add within 20 by using strategies such as counting on or by creating an equivalent but easier problem.
Find the partner to 10 for any number 1–9.
Decompose numbers within 10 into pairs in more than one way and record with an equation, such as 5 = 2 + 3 or 5 = 4 + 1.
Modules 4 and 5 Prerequisite Skills
Compare the lengths of two objects directly by aligning endpoints and describe the difference with terms such as longer, taller, shorter.
Counting by 10s and 1s
Find the partner to 10 for any number 1–9.
Count forward from a number other than 1.
Add within 20 by using strategies such as counting on or by creating an equivalent but easier problem.
Name and identify shapes regardless of their orientation or overall size.
Analyze and describe two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, by using informal language to describe them (e.g., number of sides and corners or having sides of equal length).
Find the partner to 10 for any number 1–9.
Count to 100 by ones and tens.
Mentally find 10 more or 10 less of a two-digit number.
Add a two-digit number and a multiple of 10 that have a sum within 100.
About the Number Core:
A strong foundation with the number core is vital to the numerous counting and comparison activities
students engage in throughout module 1.
The four components of the number core support students’ counting skills. The four components are
cardinality: understanding that the last number said tells how many;
number word list: saying names of number words in order;
written numerals: matching, writing, or recognizing the abstract numeral that corresponds with the number of objects in a group; and
one-to-one correspondence: pairing one object with one word.
Related to the elements of the number core is the idea that rearranging a set of objects does not change how many there are. This idea is known as conservation. A strong understanding of conservation helps students organize a set of objects or data, which in turn helps students relate sets of objects or data to their representations on a graph. For example, sorting a set of objects and arranging the objects in each category in a line helps students understand that each space on a bar graph represents an object from the sort.
Mastering relationships among counting words, written numbers, and quantities is essential for work with comparison and addition. The cardinality principle is the gateway to the Level 2 strategy of counting on. Counting on, as in, “fiiiive, 6, 7,” hinges on the student recognizing the embedded quantity 5. Being able to say the number that is 1 more requires automaticity with the number word list and primes students for counting on. Conceptually, it supports them in understanding that the total increases by 1 when 1 is added to any number. Using the counting sequence as a shortcut enables students to leave behind the laborious approach of counting all and instead make use of structure.
Activities to Support the Number Core:
Activities to Support the Number Core:
***Please Note: Many of these activities support more than one principal of the number core.***
Number Sequence:
Repeated verbal counting, corally with others or by self.
Consider using a number path or number grid
Growth mindset- Focus on getting past a previous point or saying a tricky number.
Counting back one and forward one. Using fingers, interrupt the counting sequence to go back one and forward one. Can do in partners, with one leading and the other following and then switch.
One-to-One Correspondence:
Bags of Stuff- count items using “Move and Count” or “Touch and Count” strategies
Students can sort by given attributes and then count
Move and Count can be reinforced by having the student place each item onto a number path.
Find the Match- Matching activity to match up bags of stuff with a highlighted number on a number path. (Each bag should have its own matching number path with the number highlighted.)
Cardinality:
Quick Looks- Use the 10s frame dot cards. Flip, quick show, say the number. (helps with subitizing)
Make a Match- Match the dot cards with number cards. Make a pile, win the cards!
Memory Game- Flip the cards over from “Make a Match” and play the Memory Game!
Written Numerals:
Identifying Numbers- Connect the dot sheets (printable connect the dots samples)
Race to the Top- Roll dice and record your roll
How Many Dots?- Using the 10s Frame Dot Cards, make a pile, turn the top card over and write the number on paper, using a sand tray, shaving cream, etc. Collect all the cards written correctly.
Search and Find- Using images from a book, poster, magazine, etc, search and find the quantity of objects. Record the object and number for another person find!
Printables
Printables
Printable connect the dots samples
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