Math Mammoth Grade 1 complete curriculum
Math Mammoth Grade 1 complete curriculum belongs to the Math Mammoth Lightblue Series. The first grade curriculum comprises two worktexts (A and B), a separate answer key, tests, and an easy access to script-made free calculation worksheets, which provide extra practice when needed.
The two books for 1st grade focus on
- addition and subtraction concept and basic facts within 0-10
- place value with 2-digit numbers (a.k.a. tens and ones)
- some adding and subtracting within 0-100
Also covered are geometry topics, measuring, clock, and counting coins. Please see the table of contents for 1-A and 1-B for complete lesson lists.
Some main features of the Lightblue Series books are:
- focuses on understanding of mathematical concepts
- uses clear explanations, lots of visual exercises and pattern exercises
- mastery oriented: concentrates fairly long on a topic, with fairly few topics per grade
- emphasizes mental math and developing number sense
- very little teacher preparation needed
AN ADDED BONUS! Buying this in Kagi store (as a download), you will also get Soft-Pak programs completely FREE. The 7 programs in Soft-Pak (4 math, 1 language arts, 2 testing) offer both on-screen and printable activities in a low-graphic, high content format. Read more and see screenshots.
Introduction
The main topics during first grade are the concepts of addition and subtraction, addition and subtraction
facts within 0-10, and place value till 100. Other topics studied are clock to the half hour, measuring length in inches and centimeters, shapes, and coins.
When you use these books as your only or main mathematics curriculum, they can be like a "framework",
but you still have a lot of liberty in planning your child's studies. While addition and subtraction topics are
best studied in the order they are presented, feel free to go through the geometry, clock, and money
sections in some different order.
This might even be advisable if your child is "stuck" on some concept, or is getting bored. Sometimes the
brain "chews the cud" in the background, and the concept she was stuck on can become clear after a
break.
This 1st grade curriculum aims to concentrate on a few major topics at a time, and study them in depth. This is thus totally opposite to the continually spiraling step-by-step curricula, in which each lesson typically is about a different topic from the previous or next lesson, and includes a lot of review problems from past topics.
This does not mean that your child wouldn't need occasional review. However, when each major topic is
presented in its own chapter, this gives you more freedom to plan the course of study and choose the
review times yourself.
In fact, I totally encourage you to plan your mathematics school year as a set of certain topics, instead of a certain book or certain pages from a book.
