Your child should now be bringing math homework home regularly. We think it is important for first graders to get into the habit of bringing homework home and returning it to school, because it helps them as they progress into higher grades! It should not take your child longer than 10 minutes to complete the math homework, and the work is almost exactly the same as we do in our workbooks at school.
Our math curriculum uses Math Expressions. Through objects, drawings, conceptual language, and real-world examples, it helps students make sense of mathematics.
Unit 6, Comparisons and Data, is one of the harder math units in first grade. The children are learning how to organize, represent and interpret data. Your first grader will be introduced to an abstract concept called Comparison Bars. They will learn strategies to solve and compare story problems using this methodology. Click on the link for more information
Click on the button below to watch a video explaining the tricky concepts taught in Unit 6:
In Unit 5, the children are learning about Place Value Situations. They are learning how to represent two-digit numbers, mentally add 10 more or 10 less, and use place value to model adding and subtracting with multiples of ten.
Click on the button below to learn more about Unit 5:
Click on the button below to learn more about Unit 5:
Values of Coins and Counting Money in First Grade
First Grade is using the Touch Coin program as a supplement to our math program. It is an excellent resource for teaching students about money! Each coin is assigned a certain number of touch points, with each touch point equaling 5. Pennies are not assigned a touch point, they have a line under them. The students need to be able to count by 5's before they can master combining the coins. We will be teaching the students draw touch points on the coins on their worksheets and then count by fives to find the total value.
Below are posters we are using in the classroom with poems to remember the coins. Take a look!
First Grade is using the Touch Coin program as a supplement to our math program. It is an excellent resource for teaching students about money! Each coin is assigned a certain number of touch points, with each touch point equaling 5. Pennies are not assigned a touch point, they have a line under them. The students need to be able to count by 5's before they can master combining the coins. We will be teaching the students draw touch points on the coins on their worksheets and then count by fives to find the total value.
Below are posters we are using in the classroom with poems to remember the coins. Take a look!
Here's a video explaining how to count Touch Coins, except we underline the penny (instead of putting a box around it).
Unit 4 addressed Place Value Concepts. Click below for more information.
Unit 3 focuses on Unknown Numbers in Addition and Subtraction.
Unit 2 deals with Addition and Subtraction Strategies.
Here is an overview of Unit 2:
Here is an overview of Unit 2:
Unit 1 is about Partners and Number Patterns Through 10.
We will focus on the one-more and one-less than pattern, first with counting numbers, then with finding partners, and finally with addition and subtraction.
For more detail about unit 1, please click on the button below.
We will focus on the one-more and one-less than pattern, first with counting numbers, then with finding partners, and finally with addition and subtraction.
For more detail about unit 1, please click on the button below.