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Virginia Standards

1st Grade Math SOL

All 9 Virginia math standards for 1st grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

9 standards

Number and Number Sense

3 standards
1.NS.1
Count aloud to 120 from any number and back from 30, skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s, group objects into tens and ones, and count pennies, nickels and dimes.
1.NS.2
Read and write numbers to 120, show them as tens and ones, estimate how many are in a collection, and compare and order numbers and sets up to 120.
1.NS.3
Split a whole or a small set into two or four equal shares to solve sharing problems, and name the parts as halves or fourths.

Computation and Estimation

1 standard
1.CE.1
Know addition and subtraction facts within 10 by heart, solve one-step story problems within 20, find missing numbers, and treat the equal sign as a balance.

Measurement and Geometry

3 standards
1.MG.1
Measure length, weight and how much a container holds with nonstandard units like paper clips or cubes, and explain why different units give different counts.
1.MG.2
Describe circles, triangles, squares and rectangles by sides, corners and angles, sort and draw them, spot right angles, and combine shapes into bigger ones.
1.MG.3
Tell time to the hour and half hour on analog and digital clocks, and use a calendar to find dates, ordinal days like the first Monday, and days before or after.

Probability and Statistics

1 standard
1.PS.1
Sort objects by one or two features, collect data on a class question with tallies, show it in object graphs, picture graphs and tables, and draw conclusions.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

1 standard
1.PFA.1
Describe, continue and create repeating and growing patterns with objects, colors, moves or shapes, and show the same pattern in a different form.

The official Virginia documents

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