1st Grade Math (Kentucky Academic Standards)
Your Teacher Information Pack for 1st Grade Math in Kentucky: 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
- Kentucky
- Grade
- Grade 1
- Standards
- Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics
- Last checked
- 2026-10-21
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The standards (our summaries)
Kentucky's official codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)
- KY.1.OA.1 Solve addition and subtraction word problems within 20 with the unknown in any position.
- KY.1.OA.2 Solve word problems that add three numbers with a total up to 20.
- KY.1.OA.3 Use properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.
- KY.1.OA.4 Understand subtraction as finding an unknown addend.
- KY.1.OA.5 Link counting to addition and subtraction.
- KY.1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20, fluently within 10.
- KY.1.OA.7 Understand the equal sign and decide if addition and subtraction equations are true.
- KY.1.OA.8 Find the unknown number in an addition or subtraction equation with three numbers.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)
- KY.1.NBT.1 Count to and from 120 and read, write and show numbers.
- KY.1.NBT.2 Understand two-digit numbers as tens and ones.
- KY.1.NBT.3 Compare two-digit numbers by tens and ones and record with >, = and <.
- KY.1.NBT.4 Add within 100, including a two-digit and a one-digit number or a multiple of ten.
- KY.1.NBT.5 Find 10 more or 10 less than a two-digit number mentally and explain how.
- KY.1.NBT.6 Subtract multiples of ten in the range 10 to 90.
Measurement and Data (MD)
Geometry (G)
Tests and key dates
- KSA (Kentucky Summative Assessment)
Check the Kentucky Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates.
Official documents
- education.ky.gov: 701040 Primary Mathematics Grade 1 2019
- education.ky.gov: Kentucky Academic Standards Mathematics
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Standards codes from the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics, Kentucky Department of Education. Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text. Classfern is not affiliated with or endorsed by KDE.
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