First Grade MathLand Program

Number Sense
  • Use appropriate math vocabulary
  • Develop multiple approaches to working with numbers
  • Recognize the use of different types of numbers in the real world
  • Use a variety of concrete materials to demonstrate number relationships
  • Record the counting of various occurrences
  • Count, recognize, write, order and compare whole numbers and fractions
  • Demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of addition and subtraction, using multiple strategies
  • Model and discuss the concrete representions of less than, greater than, and equal to
  • Construct situations for understanding even and odd numbers
  • Use ordinal numbers Develop mental math skills
  • Estimate small quantities of objects by using a referent
  • Demonstrate a variety of methods for finding solutions from known facts
  • Explore, discuss and solve addition and subtraction problems, using manipulatives, patterns, relationships and numbers
  • Know additon and subtraction facts
  • Recognize situations in which addition applies and use it to construct and solve prolems with whole numbers
  • Model and describe place value for two digit numbers using objects
  • Use manipulatives, coins and numbers in number sense form
  • Name the whole number before and after a given whole number
  • Understand the language of numbers (between, after)

    Algebraic Thinking

  • Identify, extend, and create patterns in many forms
  • Identify a missing piece of a pattern in a mathemeatical sentence or a sequence
  • Sort, classify and make comparisons and search for patterns while working with data and numbers
  • Link and understand written symbols to objects, numbers and words
  • Skip count by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's
  • Recognize observable regular events and shapes and work with generalizable patterns to express relationships
  • Use and make predictions about repeating patterns
  • Idenfiy the commutative and associative property of addition concretely and abstractly
  • Describe the relationship between addition and subtraction
  • Use manipulatives to model balancing in number sentences
  • Use positional words and relationships

    Geometry and Measurement

  • Identify coins and know their values
  • Identify, describe and discuss likeness/differences of objects and collections of objects that can be manipulated or visualized
  • Recognize shapes in different orientations
  • Name days of the week and months of the year
  • Use clocks to tell time by hour, half hour and minute
  • Recognize, draw and name geometric shapes in mathematics and in the environment
  • Identify pattens in geometical objects, such as symmetry
  • Make and construct 2-dimensional shapes and models
  • Estimate and use nonstandard and standard units to compare and order objects by size, length, width and height
  • Use real objects as examples of quantity, space and shapes
  • Identy and recognize fractional parts of shapes

    Data Analysis: Statistics and Probability

  • Construct graphs, then analyze and discuss results
  • Collect, display, sort and interpret data, including the use of Venn diagrams
  • Use pictures and symbols to characterize and group objects and to solve problems
  • Make predictions about an event happening
  • Record and discuss the results of activities related to chance
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