Mathematics, grade 1

One skill at a time, grade 1, in the order it builds.

11 topics · 41 skills across grade 1 · 19 TAC chapter 111 the rule text (PDF)

Grouped by what you would call the thing, rather than by where Texas files it. A skill can sit under more than one topic, because most of them do.

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adding and subtracting

6

Putting together and taking away whole numbers, fractions and decimals — then positive and negative numbers too, first with models, later fluently.

also called sums, take away

counting

2

Counting in twos, fives and tens, and using it to total up a pile of coins or a grid of square tiles.

fractions

1

Fair shares of a whole — then ratios and percents too: named, compared, computed, and converted between forms.

  • Grade 1 1.6.G Partition into two and four equal parts

graphs and data

4

Drawing up data as dot plots, histograms, box plots and scatterplots — and graphing relationships on the coordinate plane to predict what comes next.

also called charts, bar graphs

measurement

4

How long, how heavy, how much it holds — and how wide an angle opens, measured in degrees.

also called rulers, how long

money

5

Dollars and cents first — naming them, counting them — then earning, spending, saving and investing.

also called coins, allowance

  • Grade 1 1.4.A Identify coins by value, relate them
  • Grade 1 1.4.B Write coin values with the cent symbol
  • Grade 1 1.9.A Money earned is income
  • Grade 1 1.9.B Income buys goods, services; wants or needs
  • Grade 1 1.9.C Spending versus saving

personal finance

3

Earning, spending, saving and sharing — then taxes, credit and what borrowing costs, and making the budget balance.

place value

2

What each digit is worth, from billions down to thousandths — which is what makes big numbers and small decimals manageable.

problem solving

6

Word problems, and the habit underneath them: pick a tool, try it, and check whether the answer is sensible.

  • Grade 1 1.1.B Analyze, plan, solve, justify, evaluate
  • Grade 1 1.1.C Select tools and techniques for problems
  • Grade 1 1.3.B Solve join, separate, compare problems to 20
  • Grade 1 1.3.E Explain add and subtract strategies to 20
  • Grade 1 1.3.F Generate, solve stories for number sentences
  • Grade 1 1.5.D Model addition and subtraction problems to 20

shapes and geometry

7

Naming shapes and solids, sorting them by sides and angles, moving and resizing them — and measuring around, across and inside them.

  • Grade 1 1.6.A Classify and sort 2D shapes by attributes
  • Grade 1 1.6.B Defining versus non-defining attributes
  • Grade 1 1.6.C Create two-dimensional figures
  • Grade 1 1.6.D Name 2D shapes and their attributes formally
  • Grade 1 1.6.E Identify 3D solids and describe attributes
  • Grade 1 1.6.F Join figures into a target shape
  • Grade 1 1.6.G Partition into two and four equal parts

telling time

1

Reading a clock, analog or digital — to the hour and half hour first, then to the minute.

also called clocks

  • Grade 1 1.7.E Tell time to hour and half hour

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