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Daily math practice for 1st grade

Five sheets, one a day, taking addition from the facts a child already owns up to the crossing-ten step that first grade is really about.

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What the 5 days look like

Addition within 20 · 5 daily sheets plus an answer key and a story map — 7 sides in all.

  1. Monday Warm-up

    Monday stays under five — 1 + 1, 2 + 1, 1 + 3.

  2. Tuesday Build

    Tuesday works up through the teens with one small addend.

  3. Wednesday Practice

    Wednesday mixes the sizes so the sign has to be read.

  4. Thursday Stretch

    Thursday runs to the top of the range with easy pairs: 18 + 1, 0 + 19.

  5. Friday Challenge

    Friday is the crossing-ten work — 8 + 12, 5 + 15, 9 + 8.

Why a week beats one long page

First grade's demand is fluency within twenty, and fluency is a function of frequency. Ten minutes on five days does more for recall than an hour on one, because what is being built is retrieval rather than understanding — the child already knows what addition is by now.

How to run it

The hard part sits in the middle of the range, and the week is arranged to arrive at it. Monday's sums stay small enough to be counted; Friday's include the pairs that cross ten, where counting on fingers runs out and a make-ten strategy has to take over. A child who meets those on Monday just counts; a child who meets them on Friday has had four days of groundwork.

Same week, different skill

Other Grade 1 packs

Every one of these builds a pack that gets harder day by day. A single times table fills three days rather than five — ten facts, each allowed back once. Skills whose questions are all one weight are left out.
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