1st Grade Math (Iowa Core)
Your Teacher Information Pack for 1st Grade Math in Iowa: the standards with their official codes, the state tests and the official links. Check what you're teaching and plan a lesson.
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- State
- Iowa
- Grade
- Grade 1
- Standards
- Iowa Academic Standards for Mathematics
- Last checked
- 2026-10-21
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The standards (our summaries)
Iowa's official codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)
- 1.OA.A.1 Solve addition and subtraction word problems within 20 with the unknown in any position.
- 1.OA.A.2 Solve word problems that add three whole numbers with a total of 20 or less.
- 1.OA.B.3 Use the commutative and associative properties as strategies for adding.
- 1.OA.B.4 Understand subtraction as finding an unknown addend.
- 1.OA.IA.C.1 Iowa standard: use counting and subitizing to explain addition and subtraction.
- 1.OA.C.5 Link counting on and counting back to adding or subtracting 1 or 2.
- 1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract within 20 using the strategies the standard lists.
- 1.OA.IA.C.2 Iowa standard: add and subtract within 10 fluently.
- 1.OA.D.7 Understand what the equal sign means and decide if equations are true or false.
- 1.OA.D.8 Find the missing whole number that makes an addition or subtraction equation true.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)
- 1.NBT.A.1 Count forward and backward starting from any number within 0–120.
- 1.NBT.B.2 Know that a two-digit number is made of tens and ones (a–c: a ten, the teens, and multiples of ten).
- 1.NBT.B.3 Compare two two-digit numbers by looking at their tens and ones digits.
- 1.NBT.C.4 Add within 100, including a two-digit number plus a one-digit number or a multiple of ten, using place value.
- 1.NBT.C.5 Find 10 more or 10 less than a two-digit number mentally and explain the reasoning.
- 1.NBT.C.6 Subtract multiples of ten from multiples of ten in the range 10–90.
Measurement and Data (MD)
- 1.MD.A.1 Put three objects in order by length and compare two lengths using a third object.
- 1.MD.A.2 Measure length by laying equal units end to end with no gaps and counting them.
- 1.MD.B.3 Tell and write time to the hour and half hour.
- 1.MD.IA.B.1 Iowa standard: identify pennies and dimes and count mixed collections up to 100 cents.
- 1.MD.C.4 Sort, show and talk about data in as many as three categories.
Geometry (G)
Tests and key dates
- ISASP (Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress)
Check the Iowa Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates (we have not yet confirmed every detail above on the official site).
Official documents
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Standards codes from the Iowa Academic Standards for Mathematics (Iowa Department of Education). Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Iowa Department of Education.
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