First Grade Math TEKS: Checklist with Lessons

Mathematical process standards

Number and operations

• 1.2.A

  Our lessons lead up to this standard

  Children look at a small group for a moment and say how many there are without counting one by one.

  • Lesson 8: How many? Look fast in the Kindergarten unit Counting to 10

• 1.2.B

  Children build the numbers 11 to 19 with one ten-rod and loose cubes and write them as one ten and some ones.

  • Lesson 1: Teen numbers: one ten and some ones in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 2: Count the tens: 10 to 90 in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 3: Tens and ones in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 6: Number of the day in the unit Tens and Ones

• 1.2.C

  Children count 1 to 9 ten-rods, say how many tens there are with no ones left over, and write the number from 10 to 90.

  • Lesson 1: Teen numbers: one ten and some ones in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 2: Count the tens: 10 to 90 in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 3: Tens and ones in the unit Tens and Ones
  • Lesson 6: Number of the day in the unit Tens and Ones

• 1.2.D

  Children write the number that is 1 more and 1 less, and the number that is 10 more and 10 less, than a two-digit number.

  • Lesson 3: 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less in the unit The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting

• 1.2.E

  Children compare two two-digit numbers with the signs for greater than and less than, and put three numbers in order.

  • Lesson 5: Compare and order two-digit numbers in the unit Tens and Ones

• 1.2.F

  Children compare two two-digit numbers with the signs for greater than and less than, and put three numbers in order.

  • Lesson 5: Compare and order two-digit numbers in the unit Tens and Ones

• 1.2.G

  Children compare two two-digit numbers with the signs for greater than and less than, and put three numbers in order.

  • Lesson 5: Compare and order two-digit numbers in the unit Tens and Ones

• 1.3.A

  Our lessons go beyond this standard

  Children add tens to a two-digit number in their heads, such as 34 + 20, with sums up to 99, and say that only the tens digit changes.

  • Lesson 1: Add tens to a number in the unit Adding Within 100
  • Lesson 2: Subtract tens from tens in the unit Adding Within 100
  • Lesson 3: Add ones to a two-digit number in the unit Adding Within 100
  • Lesson 4: Add ones and make a new ten in the unit Adding Within 100

• 1.3.B

  Children listen to a story in which some more come, use the picture of the two groups, and write how many there are in all, with totals up to 10.

  • Lesson 3: Adding stories: some more come in the Kindergarten unit Adding and Taking Away Within 10
  • Lesson 4: Take-away stories: some go away in the Kindergarten unit Adding and Taking Away Within 10
  • Lesson 5: Put-together stories: how many in all? in the Kindergarten unit Adding and Taking Away Within 10
  • Lesson 1: Word problems within 10 in the unit Story Problems Within 20

• 1.3.C

  Children find the number that goes with a given number to make 10, and know the pairs that make 10.

  • Lesson 3: Partners that make 10 in the unit Addition and Subtraction Within 10
  • Lesson 4: How many more to make 10? in the Kindergarten unit Number Bonds and Partners of 10

• 1.3.D

  Children add by counting on and subtract by counting back on a number line, use fact families to work out related facts, and practice the facts on color-by-answer pages.

  • Lesson 6: Add and subtract to color in the Kindergarten unit Number Bonds and Partners of 10
  • Lesson 7: Partners that make 20 in the Kindergarten unit Number Bonds and Partners of 10
  • Lesson 4: Count on and count back on a number line in the unit Addition and Subtraction Within 10
  • Lesson 5: Fact families to 10 in the unit Addition and Subtraction Within 10

• 1.4.A

  Children name a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter, say what each is worth, and count the coins in a purse, starting with purses that hold one kind of coin.

  • Lesson 6: Count coins in the unit Time, Calendar, and Coins
  • Lesson 8: Count mixed coins in the Grade 2 unit Measurement, Time, and Money

• 1.4.C

  Children count the coins in a purse (quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies), starting with the coins that are worth the most, and write the total in cents.

  • Lesson 6: Count coins in the unit Time, Calendar, and Coins
  • Lesson 8: Count mixed coins in the Grade 2 unit Measurement, Time, and Money

Algebraic reasoning

• 1.5.A

  Our lessons lead up to this standard

  Children count aloud to 50 by ones, touch each box of a number chart from 1 to 50, and write the numbers that are missing.

  • Lesson 5: Count to 50 in the Kindergarten unit Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
  • Lesson 6: Count to 100 on the hundreds chart in the Kindergarten unit Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
  • Lesson 2: The hundreds chart in the unit The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting

• 1.5.B

  Children count aloud by tens to 100, go on from any ten, and write the tens that are missing in rows that count by tens.

  • Lesson 8: Count by tens to 100 in the Kindergarten unit Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
  • Lesson 4: Count by tens, fives, and twos in the unit The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting
  • Lesson 3: Count by fives and tens in the Grade 2 unit Place Value to 1,000

• 1.5.C

  Children write the number that is 10 more and 10 less than a two-digit number, using the hundreds chart, where the number one row down is ten more.

  • Lesson 5: Count to 50 in the Kindergarten unit Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
  • Lesson 6: Count to 100 on the hundreds chart in the Kindergarten unit Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
  • Lesson 2: The hundreds chart in the unit The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting
  • Lesson 3: 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less in the unit The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting

• 1.5.E

  Our lessons go beyond this standard

  Children decide whether an addition or subtraction equation within 20 is true or false, including equations that begin with the single number, such as 16 = 13 + 3.

  • Lesson 5: True or false? in the unit Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids
  • Lesson 5: Make it balance in the Grade 3 unit Rounding, Adding, and Subtracting Within 1,000

• 1.5.F

  Children find the unknown number in an addition or subtraction equation within 10, in any position.

  • Lesson 6: Find the missing number in the unit Addition and Subtraction Within 10
  • Lesson 8: Addition pyramids (number walls) in the unit Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids
  • Lesson 5: Make it balance in the Grade 3 unit Rounding, Adding, and Subtracting Within 1,000

• 1.5.G

  Children add three groups of pictures and write the total, adding an easy pair first.

  • Lesson 4: Think addition to subtract in the unit Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids
  • Lesson 7: Add three groups in the unit Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids
  • Lesson 5: Stories with three numbers in the unit Story Problems Within 20
  • Lesson 5: Fact families to 10 in the unit Addition and Subtraction Within 10

Geometry and measurement

• 1.6.A

  Our lessons lead up to this standard

  Children count the sides of a shape, write the number, and match shapes to their number of sides.

  • Lesson 2: Count the sides in the Kindergarten unit Shapes All Around

• 1.6.B

  Children decide by its sides and corners whether a shape really is a triangle, a rectangle, or a square, and write the names of shapes.

  • Lesson 1: What makes a shape that shape? in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs

• 1.6.C

  Our lessons lead up to this standard

  Children draw named flat shapes on dot paper, giving each shape the right number of sides and corners.

  Worksheets: Draw 2D Shapes on Dot Paper

• 1.6.D

  Children decide by its sides and corners whether a shape really is a triangle, a rectangle, or a square, and write the names of shapes.

  • Lesson 1: What makes a shape that shape? in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs

• 1.6.E

  Children name the sphere, the cube, the cylinder and the cone, match each one to an everyday thing of the same shape, and name it again when it is big or small, standing or lying down.

  • Lesson 4: Name the solid shapes in the Kindergarten unit Shapes All Around
  • Lesson 2: Solid shapes around us in the Grade 2 unit Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry
  • Lesson 3: Faces, edges, and vertices (corners) in the Grade 2 unit Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry

• 1.6.F

  Children put tangram pieces together to make a figure and show where the pieces meet inside a shape.

  • Lesson 5: Build shapes from pieces in the Kindergarten unit Shapes All Around
  • Lesson 2: Tangram puzzles in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs

• 1.7.B

  Children measure the length of an object by counting the unit squares under it, and put three objects in order from shortest to longest.

  • Lesson 3: Measure length with squares in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 4: No gaps, no overlaps in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 2: Same length, two units in the Grade 2 unit Measurement, Time, and Money

• 1.7.D

  Children measure a length by laying paper clips end to end from one end to the other with no gaps and no overlaps, and find the mistakes in rows of clips that were laid wrong.

  • Lesson 3: Measure length with squares in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 4: No gaps, no overlaps in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 2: Same length, two units in the Grade 2 unit Measurement, Time, and Money

• 1.7.E

  Children read a clock to the hour and to the half hour and choose the matching time.

  • Lesson 1: Tell time to the hour and half hour in the unit Time, Calendar, and Coins
  • Lesson 2: Draw the clock hands in the unit Time, Calendar, and Coins
  • Lesson 3: Match the clocks in the unit Time, Calendar, and Coins

Data analysis

• 1.8.A

  Children count each kind in a mixed set, write the totals in a table, and read how many a picture graph shows in each row.

  • Lesson 6: Sort, count, and read a picture graph in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs

• 1.8.B

  Children read the number each bar shows and color a bar graph, one box for each one counted.

  • Lesson 7: Read and make a bar graph in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 2: Make a graph from counts in the Grade 2 unit Graphs and Grids

• 1.8.C

  Children read the counts for four groups and color one box in the graph for each one. Then, with the teacher, they compare the rows of the finished graph: how many more, how many fewer, how many in all.

  • Lesson 6: Sort, count, and read a picture graph in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 7: Read and make a bar graph in the unit Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
  • Lesson 2: Make a graph from counts in the Grade 2 unit Graphs and Grids

Personal financial literacy