Wednesday, July 22, 2009

First Grade Everyday Mathematics Content



First Grade Everyday Mathematics emphasizes the following content:

*Numeration
Counting, reading and writing numbers, investigating place value of whole numbers, exploring fractions and money.

*Operations and Computation Learning addition and subtraction facts, fact families, and extended facts, beginning informal work with properties of numbers and problem solving.

*Data and Chance Collecting, organizing, and displaying data using tables, charts, and graphs.

*Geometry
Exploring 2- and 3- dimensional shapes.

*Measurement and Reference Frames Using tools to measure length, capacity (quarts, liters), and weight; using clocks, calendars, timelines, thermometers, and ordinal numbers.

*Patterns, Functions, and Algebra Exploring attributes, patterns, sequences, relations, and functions; finding missing numbers and rules in Frames-and-Arrows and "What's My Rule?" problems, studying properties of operations.

~Information taken from Everyday Mathematics First Grade Parent Letter

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