First grade math is the beginning of an important journey for students in their education; that’s why I’ve compiled a great list of 1st Grade Math Worksheets in printable and digital forms for teachers and parents to help support their students along the way.
In partnership with Teach Simple, whose marketplace is full of educational materials created by actual teachers (plus 50% of all revenues go to them), I found educator-created 1st grade math supplements including quizzes, charts, and skills worksheets that you can download and print to use in your classroom or with your child at home. Browse these free printable 1st grade math worksheets to find the best ones for you.
Table of Contents
- What Math Skills Should a 1st Grader Know?
- How To Use Math Worksheets in Grade 1
- Best 1st Grade Numbers, Number Lines, and Place Value Worksheets
- Best 1st Grade Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
- Best 1st Grade Fractions Worksheets
- Best 1st Grade Geometry Worksheets
- Best 1st Grade Data Analysis and Word Problems Worksheets
- How Do You Explain Tens and Ones to 1st Graders?
- How Do You Write a Number Line for 1st Graders?
- Check Out These Additional 1st Grade Resources
What Math Skills Should a 1st Grader Know?
In 1st grade math students learn a variety of new skills. Some of these include:
- number charts and counting
- number patterns
- and comparing numbers
Students will also encounter base 10 blocks, place values, addition and subtraction, basic fractions and measurements, data analysis, counting money, geometry, and word problems.
The printable worksheets listed below cover all of these skills plus more to set your first grader up for math success. Have a look!
How To Use Math Worksheets in Grade 1
Teachers love the convenience and extra support the following printable 1st grade math worksheets offer. Whether you are running behind on your lesson planning, are stumped by how to teach a certain topic, or your students have extra questions about these skills, you will be able to supplement your already amazing teaching by passing out these 1st Grade Math Worksheets and asking students to work on their skills individually, in partners, or in groups. Many are available digitally as well for a more interactive experience.
Best 1st Grade Numbers, Number Lines, and Place Value Worksheets
Number Worksheets 11–20
This packet of 10 printable worksheets help with number recognition, number sense, number writing, and number concepts.
Animal Number Concept Cards
This package contains 10 black and white printables of number concepts from 1-10. Canadian animals help kids learn and understand the number concepts on the cards.
Grouping Objects & Number Lines
This digital or printable resource provides a comprehensive lesson including pre-assessments and skill-building activities centered around grouping objects and number lines.
Rounding With Betty Bee
These rounding activities will have learners buzzing with excitement. Each worksheet follows Betty Bee through her decision-making process when rounding numbers.
Base-Ten and Place Value
Base-ten and place value concepts can be hard to teach to students who are at differentiating levels of math skills. That’s why this computer series is great to meet students where they are at as it provides printable or digital curriculum-based content in the form of a pre-assessment, lesson plan, real-world word problems, and timed drill activities.
Algebra Number Charts – Practice the Skill
Here’s another comprehensive set of digital or printable assessments and lessons to assess what your 1st grade students understand about algebra number charts and drills and activities to help them really grasp the concept.
Number Bonds to Ten
This resource contains a colorful and fully editable 90-slide PowerPoint lesson that you can print out or display digitally to teach students number bonds to 10. Pick and choose what works for your class or use the whole lesson over a series of weeks to hit the concept number bonds home.
Counting and Ordering Objects
This mini computer lesson on counting and ordering objects provides digital or printable curriculum-based content in the form of a pre-assessment, lesson plan, real-world word problems, and timed drill activities so you can cover all of the skills 1st graders need.
Best 1st Grade Addition and Subtraction Worksheets
Addition & Subtraction – Practice the Skill
Another great computer series that provides a full comprehensive look at addition and subtraction in Grade 1. Assess students skills upfront and have them practice adding and subtracting with fun digital or printable activities and worksheets.
Addition and Subtraction 1-18 Printable Workbook
With the ability to print the pages over and over, your students can complete the activities again and again until they’ve learned skills, including:
• Simple Addition with numbers 1-18
• Simple subtraction with numbers 1-18
• Following directions
• Matching, coloring, drawing, and more!
Addition and Subtraction: Roll and Solve
These winter-themed worksheets help 1st graders practice addition and subtraction to 10. There are 18 worksheets (6 addition, 6 subtraction, and 6 with mixed addition and subtraction) that you can print out and use for skill practice during the winter months.
Algebra: Addition and Subtraction – Learn the Skill
In the form of real-world word problems, students can practice their addition and subtraction in multiple forms, either digitally or through printed worksheets.
Super Heroes Addition and Subtraction Math Worksheets
This is a package of math worksheets with a “Super Hero” theme. It’s simple addition and subtraction problems, counting, and graphing that students can learn and practice in a super setting.
Best 1st Grade Fractions Worksheets
Fractions Pre-Assessment and Teach the Skill
Find out where your students are at in their understanding of fractions with this digital mini lesson that includes a pre-assessment and activities that teach the skills. Use it on the computer or print it out; whichever works best.
Printable Pie Fractions
Your students will be able to actually see how these fraction pieces relate to one another in these printed pie fractions. There is a black-and-white version (you can print and color them however you like) or there is a printable color version too. The one whole pie piece will fit all of the other fraction pieces for tons of fraction fun.
Fractions Grades 1–2
This workbook provides a carefully structured, developmental approach to the study of fractions. It is designed to provide practice for kids in 1st or 2nd grade. The pages are presented in a suggested order, but may be used in any order which best meets each student’s needs.
Fractions, Numbers, and Operations
This digital or printable curriculum-based content comes in the form of pre-assessment, lesson plan, real-world word problems, and timed drill activities all around fractions, numbers, and operations.
Best 1st Grade Geometry Worksheets
Geometry and Spacial Sense Printable Workbook
Reviewed, evaluated, edited, and creatively written by teaching professionals, this early math workbook implements current teaching strategies and aligns with grade-level standards to get students understanding basic geometry concepts which will set them up for later grades.
Geometry: Shapes – Practice The Skill
Another fully comprehensive lesson, this geometry and shapes practice helps assess students to see where they are at and works to build their shape skills with practice. This can be used digitally or can be printed out.
Geometry: Spinner Game
In this gamified digital worksheet, 6 geometry questions are provided on the wheel. Students can take turns or work as a group to answer their questions and win the “game.” Questions cover the geometry concepts covered in the Five Strands of Math for grades PK-2.
Valentine’s Day Shapes Tasks Cards
These Valentine’s Day-themed task cards and printable worksheets help your students with shape names and shape recognition.
Best 1st Grade Data Analysis and Word Problems Worksheets
Data Analysis and Probability: Word Problems
Each task sheet in this set is organized around a central problem taken from real-life experiences. They also contain a variety of content and levels of difficulty so you can provide for students with different learning opportunities. Also included in this resource are activities to help students learn how to collect, organize, analyze, interpret, and predict data probabilities.
Data Analysis & Probability: Bar Graphs
To help kids understand bar graphs about data and probability, try this curriculum-based content and lesson plan full of assessments, skill-building activities, and digital or printable worksheets.
Pictographs – Practice the Skill
In conjunction with the bar graph activities above, try these timed drill activities that help students understand how to interpret pictographs about data and probability. This can be used in digital or printed form.
Tally Charts – Learn the Skill
Real-world word problems help introduce students to tally charts in this digital or printable mini lesson and activity.
Secret Word Problems Puzzles
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Your kids will love figuring out the secret codes! These 5 sets will help your students add and subtract within word problems.
How Do You Explain Tens and Ones to 1st Graders?
First graders will be able to grasp the concept of tens and ones if you break it down into simple ideas and offer them visuals or hands-on blocks to use while learning it.
When you count out single pieces in front of them, pause at ten. Illustrate to the students that ten pieces of one is the same as (replace the ten pieces with one block) one unit of ten.
You can further illustrate this by doing the same process again; keep your unit of ten and add three pieces, asking the students how much there now is in total. They should easily be able to conclude that this is the number 13. Continue adding pieces until there is a unit of ten beside ten pieces. Ask the students if you can replace the ten pieces with a unit of ten. When they say “yes,” replace the pieces with another block, indicating there are now 20 in total, or two blocks of ten.
Offer the students their own pieces to count. You can supplement this lesson with a worksheet focused on grouping objects or different numbers that they can demonstrate and solve using their pieces and blocks.
How Do You Write a Number Line for 1st Graders?
Number lines help students make sense of simple single and double digit numbers and math problems; they can look at their number lines to help them work on their addition and subtraction problems. Number lines also help students make sense of word problems and data analysis.
The best way to introduce and write number lines for 1st graders is to incorporate number line worksheets that leave some numbers blank, so students can learn to fill out a number line themselves. Check out these printable 1st grade math worksheets on number lines or the ones I highlighted above.
Check Out These Additional 1st Grade Resources
About the Author
Jen Skolsky has a background in English, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She has taught for many years in international education, including ESL for all ages, middle school literature, speech and debate; high school AP Psychology, AP Language, AP Literature; university level Academic Writing, and Chinese Medicine Theory. She now works in marketing and book publishing.
