Teaching resources for parents and teachers

Grade 1 Math Worksheets for Parents and Teachers

Choose a skill for the child you teach. Read the teaching notes, work through an example together, then print a worksheet and a separate answer key. Grade labels are a guide; use earlier skills when your student needs more support.

Addition Worksheets Within 20
Help your student move from counting every object to counting on or making ten.
Subtraction Within 10 Worksheets
Introduce subtraction by showing what is taken away and what remains.
Missing Addends Within 20 Worksheets
Teach the blank as an unknown part of a total.
Addition & Subtraction Word Problems Within 20
Help your student connect an addition or subtraction story to an action.
Addition and Subtraction Word Problems: Unknown Starting Number
Help your student work backward from an ending total to an unknown starting amount.
More and Fewer Word Problems
Use matching rows of counters to teach more-than and fewer-than comparisons.
Word Problems With Extra Information
Teach your student to select information based on the question.
Money Word Problems: Finding Cents Spent
Use this worksheet to teach an unknown amount spent, rather than coin identification.
Choose an Equation Word Problems
Teach your student to choose an equation by identifying what is unknown.
Bar Model Word Problems
Use bar models to make the relationship between a whole and its parts visible.
Same Numbers, Different Word Problems
Help your student see why the same numbers can require different operations.
Explain Your Thinking Word Problems
Use these problems to discuss reasoning as well as answers.
Find and Fix the Mistake Word Problems
Teach students to check a proposed solution against the question.
Write Your Own Question Word Problems
Help your student write a question that can be answered from the story.
Adding and Subtracting Tens Word Problems
Teach addition and subtraction of tens by counting groups of ten.
2-Digit Plus 1-Digit Addition Word Problems
Help your student add ones to a two-digit number using a strategy that fits.
Difference Word Problems Within 20
Teach a difference by matching two collections.
How Many More? Word Problems
Show how counting on finds the amount needed to reach a target.
Place Value Worksheets: Tens and Ones Expanded Form
Teach a ten as a group of ten ones.
Telling Time Worksheets: Hours and Half Hours
Teach hours and half hours using both clock hands.
Comparing Numbers Worksheets: 2-Digit Numbers
Teach two-digit comparison by comparing tens before ones.
10 More and 10 Less Worksheets
Show how adding or subtracting ten changes a number's groups.
Comparing Lengths Worksheets: Ordering 3 Objects
Teach length comparison with aligned starting points.
Addition Equations Worksheets: True or False
Use true-or-false equations to teach the meaning of the equal sign.
Shape Worksheets: Building and Drawing Shapes
Teach shape composition with pieces students can move.

More Grade 1 worksheets

Preview these activities and check the number range before assigning them. Some worksheets include drawing or oral responses for an adult to review.