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1st Grade Math Lesson Plans

Utilize Education.com's comprehensive first grade math lesson plans to help your students master the basics of math. These lesson plans are designed with first graders in mind, with in depth instructions and interactive, attention grabbing material. In other words, these lesson plans will leave your students wanting to learn more!

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One Fish, Two Fish

One Fish, Two Fish

This wacky lesson combines math and reading practice with a Dr. Seuss classic and some fun online games.

Kindergarten

Math

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Fractions of a Whole

Fractions of a Whole

Ready, set, fractions! In this hands-on lesson, your students will familiarize themselves with common fractions using concrete materials to practice splitting items into halves, thirds, and quarters.

1st grade

Math

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Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Help your students make sense of the greater than, less than and equal to in this interactive lesson! Your students will have opportunities to compare either two-digit or three-digit numbers.

1st grade

Math

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Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Give first graders a sense of time by introducing them to telling time by the hour. Students who have mastered the numbers 1 to 12 will be eager to keep the class on a time schedule.

1st grade

Math

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Which is Your Favorite Season?

Which is Your Favorite Season?

Use this lesson to teach your students about the appropriate wardrobe for the different seasons. Also, teach them about the wonderful holidays of each season!

Kindergarten

Math

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Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

Introduce hundreds place value to your students. Increase their knowledge of place value while they enjoy working with ones, tens and hundreds blocks.

1st grade

Math

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Place Value Party

Place Value Party

Now that your first graders are able to count consecutively, introduce them to the tens and ones place values. Using tens and ones blocks will make math easy and fun for everyone!

1st grade

Math

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Skip Counting by Twos

Skip Counting by Twos

Make counting fun with colorful counting bears. Students will learn that skip counting is faster than counting by ones. They will also come away from the lesson with ideas of when skip counting can be used.

1st grade

Math

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Know Your Shapes!

Know Your Shapes!

In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!

1st grade

Math

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Where is my Fact Family?

Where is my Fact Family?

This nifty lesson helps kinesthetic learners reinforce their knowledge of the commutative property. Students will love the challenge of matching equations with their fact families.

1st grade

Math

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Basic Subtraction with Marshmallows

Basic Subtraction with Marshmallows

Tasty subtraction! Your students will have a delicious time learning to subtract with a treat they can eat when they are finished.

1st grade

Math

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Adding Three is a Breeze!

Adding Three is a Breeze!

Get your students excited about adding by introducing them to word problems with three addends!

1st grade

Math

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Measurement Madness

Measurement Madness

This math lesson is filled with fun hands-on non-standard measurement activities! The lesson begins with an interactive story then has students explore measurement using several different objects as their tools!

1st grade

Math

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Less Than or Greater Than Alligators

Less Than or Greater Than Alligators

Your students will learn when to use less than and greater than and how to differentiate the two symbols in this lesson. They will have fun playing the role of the Less Than and Greater Than alligators!

1st grade

Math

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Time to Roll

It's about time to learn about time! Your students will interact with a class made clock and roll the dice to 'make up' a time. But they better know their hour and minute hands apart to find success in this lesson!

1st grade

Math

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Let's Build It! Two-Digit Addition

Let's Build It! Two-Digit Addition

Let’s start building numbers! Just as building skyscrapers is a visual representation of mathematics, students will use the visual representation of base ten blocks to add—or build—onto a two-digit number.

1st grade

Math

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Adding with M&M's

Adding with M&M's

Use a sweet treat to help students do hands-on math! Students will practice their addition skills in this yummy activity.

1st grade

Math

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Goods and Services: On Market Street

Goods and Services: On Market Street

Kids will enjoy hearing the story On Market Street as they become familiar with goods and services. From apples to zippers, students will understand how people buy goods, and how others provide services in our lives.

1st grade

Math

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Shopping Time

Food and grocery shopping will take on a different perspective for students by the end of this activity. Students may even find themselves keeping a closer eye on their pennies!

1st grade

Math

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A.M. or P.M.?

Help your students learn the difference between a.m. and p.m. while getting them comfortable with the idea of telling time with this lesson that has them identify whether they would do a given activity in the morning or evening.

1st grade

Math

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Whole Body Subtraction

Whole Body Subtraction

Students will be jumping with joy after this lesson that helps them practice their subtraction skills with physical activity.

1st grade

Math

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Adding it All Up

Adding it All Up

In this lesson, students will learn how to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number. This will help students build upon the skills needed for regrouping larger numbers.

1st grade

Math

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Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs

Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs

Collecting and graphing data can be a fantastic tool for getting to know your students and for your students to get to know one another! In this lesson, students will poll their classmates to gather data and then graph the results!

1st grade

Math

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Let's Stretch the Values! Writing Two-Digit Numbers in Expanded Form

Let's Stretch the Values! Writing Two-Digit Numbers in Expanded Form

What does it mean to expand a number? Use this lesson plan to help your students understand how to write the expanded form of two-digit numbers.

1st grade

Math

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Measure the Classroom

Measure the Classroom

Let’s make math real! Engage students in learning about measurement by measuring objects around the classroom and creating word problems for peers to solve.

1st grade

Math

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