1st Grade Number Activities
The tables below provide examples of 1st Grade Number Activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards. These activities are designed to elicit a range of responses and provide opportunities for students to communicate their reasoning and mathematical thinking. All 1st Grade Number Activities are suitable for use in Math Centers, small group or whole class settings. Instructions for each task are typed in large print and written in child-friendly language to enable students to work on activities independently after a brief introduction to the task. All files for the 1st Grade Number Activities listed are in PDF format and can be accessed using Adobe Reader.
1st Grade Number Activities
| OPERATIONS AND ALGEBRAIC THINKING | Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
1.OA1 Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve one and two step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Possible Activities:
Addition Word Problems
Subtraction Word Problems
Bunk Bed Problem
Double Decker Bus Problem
Making Apple Ten Packs
Domino Addition
Possible Read Alouds: (see task cards in right hand column)
- Rooster's Off to See the World
- One Duck Stuck
- One Hunter
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Two of Everything (Doubles facts)
- Domino Addition
1.OA2 Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Word Problems with 3 Addends
Find 3 Cards
Three Letter Addends
Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
1.OA3 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. Examples: If 8+3=11 is known, then 3+8=11 is also known. (Commutative property) To add 2+6+4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2+6+4=2+10=12 (Associative property).
Possible Activities:
Turn Around Trains
Turn Around Dominoes
Domino Fact Families
1.OA4 Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10-8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.
Possible Activities:
Ten Frame Subtraction
Add and subtract within 20
1.OA5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g. by counting on 2 to add 2).
Possible Activities:
Show One More
Show One Less
One More on the 10 Frame
One More/One Less Scoop
1.OA6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g. 8+6=8+2+4=10+4=14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13-4=13-3-1=10-1=9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g. knowing that 8+4=12, one knows 12-8=4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6+7 by creating the known equivalent 6+6+1 =12+1=13).
Possible Activities:
Plus One Game (two dice)
One Less (11-20)
Doubles Facts
Make Ten Game
Facts of Ten
Fact Family House
Make 10 on the Ten Frame
Number Sentence Match
Sums of Ten
Make 10 Squares
Dot Card Addition
Addition Domino Train
I Have...Who Has? (Easy Facts)
Work with addition and subtraction equations
1.OA7 Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6=6, 7=8-1, 5+2=2+5 , 4+1=5+2
True or False?
Equal Sums
1.OA8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating to three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8+ ? =11, 5 = □ – 3, 6+6 = □
Find the Missing Number
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1st Grade Number Activities
| NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS IN BASE TEN | Extend the counting sequence
1.NBT1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
Missing Numbers Grids 1-50
Understand place value
1.NBT2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.Understand the following as special cases:
a. 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones – called a “ten.”
b. The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
c. The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
Possible Activities:
Make 10 Bundles
Teens on the Ten Frame Teens on the Ten Frame Book Template
My Double Ten-Frame Riddle
Tens and Ones Game
Representing Two Digit Numbers with Base 10 Blocks
Base Ten Concentration (2 Digit)
1.NBT3 Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
Possible Activities:
Ten Frame Compare
Comparing Two Digit Numbers
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
1.NBT4 Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones, and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
Possible Activities:
Subtraction Split
Add and Subtract 10 on the Number Line
What Number is...?
Ten More
Adding Sets of Ten
Sam's Base 10 Blocks
Adding 2 Digit and One Digit Numbers
Addition Split (2 digit + multiple of 10)
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