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Grade 1 Math Scope and Sequence

8 units in teaching order: 51 lessons, about 30 weeks in all.

These units do not fill a whole school year. Use the order and the number of weeks to fit them into your own year.

The units week by week

  1. Weeks 1–4

    Addition and Subtraction Within 10

    1. Add two groups
    2. Take away: how many are left?
    3. Partners that make 10
    4. Count on and count back on a number line
    5. Fact families to 10
    6. Find the missing number
    7. Fact fluency within 10

    Standards, Common Core: 1.OA.B.3, 1.OA.B.4, 1.OA.C.5, 1.OA.C.6, 1.OA.D.8

  2. Weeks 5–9

    Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids

    1. Doubles and halves
    2. Near doubles
    3. Make ten to add
    4. Think addition to subtract
    5. True or false?
    6. Odd and even numbers
    7. Add three groups
    8. Addition pyramids (number walls)

    Standards, Common Core: 1.OA.B.3, 1.OA.B.4, 1.OA.C.6, 1.OA.D.7, 1.OA.D.8

  3. Weeks 10–12

    Story Problems Within 20

    1. Word problems within 10
    2. Find the missing part
    3. What happened in the middle?
    4. How many more? How many fewer?
    5. Stories with three numbers

    Standards, Common Core: 1.OA.A.1, 1.OA.A.2

  4. Weeks 13–15

    Tens and Ones

    1. Teen numbers: one ten and some ones
    2. Count the tens: 10 to 90
    3. Tens and ones
    4. Number words
    5. Compare and order two-digit numbers
    6. Number of the day

    Standards, Common Core: 1.NBT.B.2, 1.NBT.B.3, 1.NBT.C.5

  5. Weeks 16–18

    The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting

    1. Find a number on the number line
    2. The hundreds chart
    3. 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less
    4. Count by tens, fives, and twos

    Standards, Common Core: 1.NBT.A.1, 1.NBT.C.5

  6. Weeks 19–21

    Adding Within 100

    1. Add tens to a number
    2. Subtract tens from tens
    3. Add ones to a two-digit number
    4. Add ones and make a new ten
    5. Add two two-digit numbers: tens with tens, ones with ones
    6. Add two two-digit numbers and make a new ten

    Standards, Common Core: 1.NBT.C.4, 1.NBT.C.6

  7. Weeks 22–25

    Time, Calendar, and Coins

    1. Tell time to the hour and half hour
    2. Draw the clock hands
    3. Match the clocks
    4. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the months
    5. Ordinal numbers to tenth
    6. Count coins

    Standards, Common Core: 1.MD.B.3

  8. Weeks 26–30

    Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs

    1. What makes a shape that shape?
    2. Tangram puzzles
    3. Measure length with squares
    4. No gaps, no overlaps
    5. Sort into three groups
    6. Sort, count, and read a picture graph
    7. Read and make a bar graph
    8. Patterns: two are missing
    9. Equal shares: fair or not?

    Standards, Common Core: 1.G.A.1, 1.G.A.2, 1.G.A.3, 1.MD.A.1, 1.MD.A.2, 1.MD.C.4

Print the scope and sequence

The same table on paper, with a column for your own dates and a box to check off when you have taught a unit.

Scope and sequence (PDF)

The printable scope and sequence comes with the paid Teacher plan.

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