Grade 1 Math Curriculum

Understanding the Grade 1 Math Syllabus & How You Can Support Your Child
Stepping into Grade 1 is a huge milestone for any child. It’s also important for parents because the first year lays the foundation for upper grade math.

To help your child build a strong math foundation, KooBits’ learning plan gives you all the Grade 1 topics aligned to the Philippine DepEd Math Curriculum.

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Building Number Sense - Counting, Ordering and More or Less Concept

  1. Count to 10 in numbers
  2. Count to 10 in words
  3. To count the number of objects
  4. Count to 0
  5. Count the number of objects in a given picture
  6. Find multiple progression ordinal relationship with greater-than and less-than
  7. Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
  8. Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
  9. Count on to find 1 more
  10. Count back to find 1 less
  11. Find a number more than another number
  12. Find a number less than another number

Building Number Sense - Arranging and Comparing Numbers

  1. Compare the number of objects in two or more sets
  2. Compare two numbers within 10
  3. Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
  4. Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
  5. Find number just-before or just-after another number
  6. Find number greater than or smaller than another number
  7. Use place value to compare two numbers within 20
  8. Use place value to compare three numbers within 20
  9. Order numbers within 20 by making number patterns
  10. Compare two numbers within 40
  11. Compare three numbers within 40
  12. Compare numbers within 100 when the tens are different
  13. Compare numbers within 100 when the tens are equal
  14. Find number just-before or just-after another number
  15. Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list
  16. Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list, and find the final value after one addition.
  17. Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list, and find the final value after one subtraction
  18. Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list and find the difference

Working More With Addition and Subtraction - Number to 999

  1. Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list
  2. Form smallest/greatest value with 3 given digits
  3. Use base ten blocks to read and write numbers to 1000
  4. Count on by 1s to 1000
  5. Count on by 10s to 1000
  6. Count on by 100s to 1000
  7. Use place value charts to show numbers to 1000
  8. Write numbers to 1000 in numerals
  9. Compare numbers to 1000
  10. Order 3-digit numbers
  11. Find the missing numbers in a pattern
  12. Write numbers to 1000 in words
  13. Write numbers to 1000 in expanded form

Studying Multiplication

  1. Find the product of two numbers using the term groups
  2. One-step multiplication problem to find quantity for an item for one person
  3. Multiplication as repeated addition
  4. Write multiplication sentences
  5. Multiplication within 40
  6. Solve word problems involving multiplication within 40

Understanding Philippine Money and Roman Numeral

  1. Recognizing PhP Money
  2. Comparing Php Money
  3. Counting PhP Money
  4. PhP Word Problems
  5. One-step addition problem involving cents
  6. One-step addition problem involving dollars
  7. One-step subtraction problem to find the amount difference (in dollars) between two persons
  8. Compare amounts of money
  9. Solve word problems involving adding and subtracting money in dollars only or in cents only

Appreciating Geometry and Measurement

  1. Tell time to the hour
  2. Tell time to the half hour
  3. Appropriateness of events at different times of the day
  4. Days of the Week
  5. Months of the year
  6. Measure length using common objects
  7. Compare the lengths of two items
  8. Compare the lengths of three items
  9. Measure items in units
  10. Find the total length of two items
  11. Find the difference between two items
  12. Measure length using different objects
  13. Compare height – tall and short
  14. Compare length – long and short
  15. Use the terms tallest, longest, and shortest
  16. Sum numbers involving shapes of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
  17. Compare mass using words
  18. Count square tiles to find area
  19. Use square units and half-square units to measure area
  20. Compare the volumes of liquid in containers of the same size
  21. Identify pattern formations involving shapes of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
  22. Identify pattern formations involving shapes in combination of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
  23. Sum numbers involving length of objects
  24. Identify 2D shapes
  25. Identify 2D shapes from real objects and pictures
  26. Grouping shapes by attributes – sides, corners, sizes and colours
  27. Complete patterns with 2D shapes
  28. Identify three-dimensional shapes

Building Number Sense - Ordinal Numbers

  1. Find ordinal relationship with just-before and just-after
  2. Find the number in the number list (numerical ordinal terms)
  3. Find the number in the number list (word ordinal terms)
  4. Find and compare two numbers in the number list
  5. Find and add two numbers in the number list
  6. Find and get the difference from two numbers in the number list
  7. Use first, second, up to tenth
  8. Use symbols 1st, 2nd, 3rd, up to 10th
  9. Use before, after and between to tell position
  10. Use left, right and next to

Building Number Sense - Tens and Ones

  1. Use place value charts to show numbers to 20
  2. Use place value charts to show numbers to 40
  3. Use place value charts to show numbers up to 100

Adding the Whole Numbers

  1. Make number bonds for numbers up to 10
  2. One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
  3. To find total quantity for two characters
  4. Addition problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find quantity for the 2nd person.
  5. Use number bonds to add in any order
  6. Count on to add within 10
  7. Solve word problems involving addition within 10
  8. Adding the parts to find the total
  9. Writing addition equations
  10. One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
  11. Add by counting on
  12. Add two 1-digit numbers by making 10
  13. Solve one-step word problems involving addition
  14. Add 1-digit and 2-digit numbers
  15. Addition without regrouping
  16. Addition with regrouping
  17. Add three 1-digit numbers within 40
  18. One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
  19. Add ones to 2-digit numbers within 100 without regrouping
  20. Add tens to 2-digit numbers within 100
  21. Add 2-digit numbers within 100 without regrouping
  22. Add 2-digit numbers within 100 with regrouping
  23. One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event

Working More With Addition and Subtraction - Addition within 999

  1. Two-step problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 10)
  2. Two-step problem involving two events with more-than relationship. Find total quantity for both events (up to 10)
  3. Two-step problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 20)
  4. Two-step problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 40)
  5. Two-step problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 100)
  6. One-step addition problem involving total quantity after an event
  7. Two-step problem involving two persons with either more-than or less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons
  8. Add 1-digit numbers to 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  9. Add 2-digit numbers to 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  10. Add 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  11. Add up to 3-digit numbers with regrouping in ones
  12. Add up to 3-digit numbers with regrouping in tens
  13. Add up to 3-digit numbers with regrouping in tens and ones

Introducing Division

  1. Find the quotient of two numbers using the term groups
  2. One-step division problem to find quantity for item each person gets after sharing equally
  3. Divide by sharing
  4. Divide by grouping
  5. Solve word problems involving division within 20
  6. Division within 20

Learning Simple Graphs

  1. Find sum using data given in a picture graph
  2. Find the sum of particular objects using data given in a picture graph
  3. Interpret data in picture graphs
  4. Describe the data presented in a picture graph using ‘most’, ‘least’, ‘greatest’, ‘smallest’, ‘as much as’, and ‘as many as’

Building Number Sense - Counting Numbers from 1 to 100

  1. Make a ten and count on
  2. Count to 20 in numbers
  3. Count to 20 in words
  4. Count the number of objects in a given picture
  5. Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
  6. Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
  7. Find number just-before or just-after another number
  8. Find number greater than or smaller than another number
  9. Count to 40 in numbers
  10. Count to 40 in words
  11. Count to 100 in tens
  12. Count to 100 in tens and ones

Building Number Sense - Skip Counting

  1. Find the missing number(s) in a given number pattern
  2. Find the missing number given a number pattern
  3. Find missing numbers in pattern by adding or subtracting

Subtracting Whole Numbers

  1. Use number bonds to subtract
  2. Subtract by taking away
  3. Count back to subtract within 10
  4. Count on to subtract within 10
  5. Writing subtraction equations
  6. One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
  7. One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
  8. Subtraction problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find quantity for the 2nd person.
  9. Solve word problems involving subtraction by finding the other part
  10. Solve word problems involving subtraction by taking away
  11. One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
  12. One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
  13. Subtract by counting back
  14. Subtract to get 10 first
  15. Solve one-step word problems involving subtraction
  16. Subtract from ones only
  17. Subtract from 10 first
  18. Subtraction without regrouping
  19. Subtraction with regrouping
  20. One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
  21. One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
  22. One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
  23. One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons

Working More With Addition and Subtraction - Subtraction within 999

  1. Two-step problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 10)
  2. Two-step problem involving two events with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both events (up to 10)
  3. Two-step problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 20)
  4. Two-step problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 40)
  5. Two-step problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons (up to 100)
  6. One-step problem involving the total quantity after an event
  7. Two-step problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find total quantity for both persons
  8. Subtract ones from 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  9. Subtract 2-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  10. Subtract 3-digit numbers without regrouping
  11. Subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping in tens and ones
  12. Subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping in hundreds and tens
  13. Subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping in hundreds, tens and ones
  14. Subtract within 1000 across zeros

Recognizing Fraction

  1. Recognize the number of unit fractions in one whole
  2. Recognize and name a fractional part of a whole

High-ability - Numbers to 999

  1. Add two numbers written as tens and ones
  2. Add numbers written as tens (single digit) and ones
  3. Add numbers written as tens (two digits) and ones
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