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Minnesota Standards

Minnesota 1st Grade Math Standards

All 28 Minnesota math standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Minnesota Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

28 standards

Data and Probability

3 standards
1.1.1.1
Spot patterns in information and, with the teacher's help, come up with questions that can be answered by gathering data.
1.1.1.2
Gather data to answer a question, choosing what to collect, then show it as a drawing, tally marks or bar graph and share findings digitally.
1.1.2.1
Tell whether an event is impossible, possible or certain, like rolling a 7 on a regular number cube.

Spatial Reasoning

7 standards
1.2.3.1
Put three objects in order from shortest to longest, and compare two objects by measuring each against a third one.
Common Core 1.MD.1
1.2.3.2
Measure how long something is using everyday objects as units, like paper clips or cubes laid end to end.
1.2.3.3
Name pennies, nickels and dimes and find the total value of a mix of them, up to one dollar.
1.2.4.1
Describe the features of flat and solid shapes, like squares, triangles, circles, cones, cylinders, spheres and rectangular prisms.
1.2.4.2
Join flat shapes such as squares, trapezoids, triangles and half or quarter circles into a new shape, and split shapes into triangles, rectangles and wedges.
1.2.4.3
Name the shapes of objects around them and tell where things are using left and right.
1.2.4.4
Recognize a shape even when it is turned or tilted, like a triangle pointing down.

Patterns and Relationships

18 standards
1.3.5.1
Count groups of up to 120 objects by making bunches of 5 or 10.
1.3.5.2
Read, write, compare, order and show numbers up to 120 with numerals, number lines, tally marks or base ten blocks, seeing 10, 20 and 30 as groups of ten.
1.3.5.3
Count forward and back from any number up to 120, with or without objects.
1.3.5.4
Use models, pictures or numbers to show numbers from 10 to 120 as groups of ten plus some ones, like 47 as 4 tens and 7.
1.3.5.5
Estimate amounts up to 120 by thinking in fives and tens, like guessing about 40 beads in a jar.
1.3.5.6
Solve add and subtract story problems up to 20 of every kind, like joining, taking away or comparing, using objects, drawings or equations with the unknown anywhere.
1.3.5.7
Add within 100, like a two-digit number plus a one-digit number or a multiple of ten, using models and place value, and know when to make a new ten.
1.3.5.8
Split any number up to 10 into pairs several ways with objects or drawings, like 9 as 6 and 3 or 8 and 1, and write each split as a drawing or equation.
1.3.5.9
Add and subtract within 20, with quick, accurate recall within 10, using strategies like counting on, making a ten, fact families or easier known sums.
1.3.5.10
Use pairs that make 10 to add up to the next ten, up through 100, like 37 + 3 = 40.
1.3.5.11
Double any one-digit number, like 7 + 7 = 14.
1.3.5.12
Solve sharing problems where a whole number of things is split fairly between 2 groups, and call each share a half.
1.3.6.1
Compare two two-digit numbers by looking at what the tens and ones digits mean, like 52 is more than 25.
1.3.6.2
Decide whether addition and subtraction equations are true or false, even with math on both sides, like 6 + 2 = 5 + 3.
1.3.6.3
Find the missing whole number that makes an addition or subtraction equation true, like 8 + ? = 11.
1.3.7.1
Make simple repeating, growing or shrinking patterns with objects, pictures, numbers and rules, find a rule to continue them, and explore patterns on calculators.
1.3.7.2
Notice counting patterns and skip count by 2s and 5s from 0 to 120 and by 10s up to 120 from any number, like 3, 13, 23.
1.3.7.3
Tell what changes and what stays the same in a picture pattern that grows, like a tower adding one block each step.

The official Minnesota documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Minnesota's standards, not the official wording, which Minnesota Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.