Primary 1 Maths Curriculum
Understanding the Primary 1 Maths Syllabus & How You Can Support Your P1 Child
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Numbers Up to 10
- Count to 10 in numbers
- Count to 10 in words
- To count the number of objects
- Count to 0
- Compare the number of objects in two or more sets
- Compare two numbers within 10
- Count on to find 1 more
- Count back to find 1 less
- Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
- Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
- Find ordinal relationship with just-before and just-after
- Find multiple progression ordinal relationship with greater-than and less-than
- Find the missing number(s) in a given number pattern
Addition Within 10
- Make number bonds for numbers up to 10
- Use number bonds to add in any order
- Count on to add within 10
- Adding the parts to find the total
- Writing addition equations
- Solve word problems involving addition within 10
- One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
- To find total quantity for two characters
- Addition problem involving two persons with more-than relationship. Find quantity for the 2nd person.
Subtraction Within 10
- Subtract by taking away
- Count back to subtract within 10
- Count on to subtract within 10
- Use number bonds to subtract
- Writing subtraction equations
- Solve word problems involving subtraction by finding the other part
- Solve word problems involving subtraction by taking away
- One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
- Subtraction problem involving two persons with less-than relationship. Find quantity for the 2nd person.
- One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
2D Shapes
- Identify 2D shapes
- Identify 2D shapes from real objects and pictures
- Grouping shapes by attributes – sides, corners, sizes and colours
- Complete patterns with 2D shapes
- Sum numbers involving shapes of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
- Identify pattern formations involving shapes of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
- Identify pattern formations involving shapes in combination of circle, triangle, rectangle and square
- Sum numbers involving length of objects
Ordinal Numbers
- Use first, second, up to tenth
- Use symbols 1st, 2nd, 3rd, up to 10th
- Use before, after and between to tell position
- Use left, right and next to
- Find the number in the number list (numerical ordinal terms)
- Find the number in the number list (word ordinal terms)
- Find and compare two numbers in the number list
- Find and add two numbers in the number list
- Find and get the difference from two numbers in the number list
Numbers Up to 20
- Count to 20 in numbers
- Count to 20 in words
- Make a ten and count on
- Count the number of objects in a given picture
- Use place value charts to show numbers to 20
- Use place value to compare two numbers within 20
- Use place value to compare three numbers within 20
- Find a number more than another number
- Find a number less than another number
- Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
- Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
- Find number just-before or just-after another number
- Find number greater than or smaller than another number
- Order numbers within 20 by making number patterns
Addition Within 20
- Add by counting on
- Add two 1-digit numbers by making 10
- Add 1-digit and 2-digit numbers
- Solve one-step word problems involving addition
- One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
Subtraction Within 20
- Subtract by counting back
- Subtract from ones only
- Subtract to get 10 first
- Subtract from 10 first
- Solve one-step word problems involving subtraction
- One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
- One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
Picture Graphs
- Interpret data in picture graphs
- Describe the data presented in a picture graph using ‘most’, ‘least’, ‘greatest’, ‘smallest’, ‘as much as’, and ‘as many as’
- Find sum using data given in a picture graph
- Find the sum of particular objects using data given in a picture graph
Numbers Up to 100
- Count to 40 in numbers
- Write numbers to 40 in words
- Count the number of objects in a given picture
- Use place value charts to show numbers to 40
- Compare two numbers within 40
- Compare three numbers within 40
- Concept of more-than using pictorial representation
- Concept of less-than using pictorial representation
- Find number just-before or just-after another number
- Find number greater than or smaller than another number
- Find the missing number given a number pattern
- Count to 100 in tens
- Count to 100 in tens and ones
- Use place value charts to show numbers up to 100
- Compare numbers within 100 when the tens are different
- Compare numbers within 100 when the tens are equal
- Find missing numbers in pattern by adding or subtracting
- Find number just-before or just-after another number
- Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list
- Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list, and find the final value after one addition.
- Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list, and find the final value after one subtraction
- Identify the greatest or the smallest number from a given number list and find the difference
Addition & Subtraction Within 100
- Addition without regrouping
- Addition with regrouping
- Subtraction without regrouping
- Subtraction with regrouping
- Add three 1-digit numbers within 40
- One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
- One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
- One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
- Add ones to 2-digit numbers within 100 without regrouping
- Add tens to 2-digit numbers within 100
- Add 2-digit numbers within 100 without regrouping
- Add 2-digit numbers within 100 with regrouping
- Subtract ones from 2-digit numbers without regrouping
- Subtract tens from 2-digit numbers
- Subtract 2-digit numbers without regrouping
- Subtract 2-digit numbers with regrouping
- One-step addition problem involving the total quantity after an event
- One-step subtraction problem involving the final quantity after an event
- One-step subtraction problem to find the age difference between two persons
Length
- Compare height – tall and short
- Compare length – long and short
- Compare the lengths of two items
- Use the terms tallest, longest, and shortest
- Compare the lengths of three items
- Measure length using common objects
- Measure length using different objects
- Measure items in units
- Find the total length of two items
- Find the difference between two items
Multiplication
- Multiplication as repeated addition
- Write multiplication sentences
- Multiplication within 40
- Solve word problems involving multiplication within 40
- Find the product of two numbers using the term groups
- One-step multiplication problem to find quantity for an item for one person
Division
- Divide by sharing
- Divide by grouping
- Division within 20
- Solve word problems involving division within 20
- Find the quotient of two numbers using the term groups
- One-step division problem to find quantity for item each person gets after sharing equally
Time
- Tell time to the hour
- Tell time to the half hour
- Appropriateness of events at different times of the day
Money
- Recognise coins and notes of different denominations
- Count amount of money in cents up to $1
- Count amount of money in dollars up to $100
- Match a coin of one denomination to an equivalent set of coins of another denomination
- Match a note of one denomination to an equivalent set of notes of another denomination
- Compare amounts of money
- Use combination of coins to buy things
- Solve word problems involving adding and subtracting money in dollars only or in cents only
- One-step addition problem involving cents
- One-step addition problem involving dollars
- One-step subtraction problem to find the amount difference (in dollars) between two persons
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