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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.
    • a. Add and subtract fluently within 10.
    • b. Add and subtract within 20 using efficient strategies.
  • 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.
    • a. Count forward and back to 120 from any number.
    • b. Read and write numerals to 120 and use them for groups of objects.
  • KY.1.NBT.2 Understand two-digit numbers as tens and ones.
    • a. Know ten ones make one ten.
    • b. Know 11 to 19 are one ten and some ones.
    • c. Know 10, 20 … 90 are tens with no 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.
    • a. Add within 100 using models, place value and properties.
    • b. Link addition strategies to written methods and explain the reasoning.
  • 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.
    • a. Subtract multiples of ten using models and place-value strategies.
    • b. Link subtraction strategies to written methods and explain the reasoning.

Measurement and Data (MD)

  • KY.1.MD.1 Order three objects by length and compare two using a third object.
  • KY.1.MD.2 Give a length as a whole number of same-size units laid end to end.
  • KY.1.MD.3 Work with time and money.
    • a. Tell and write time to the hour and half hour.
    • b. Name pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and their values.
  • KY.1.MD.4 Answer questions about categorical data by collecting and showing it.
    • a. Ask a question that data can answer.
    • b. Choose a way to collect data from classmates.
    • c. Organize data in a table or chart with up to three categories.
    • d. Read the table to find totals, counts in each category and differences.

Geometry (G)

  • KY.1.G.1 Tell defining from non-defining features and build and draw shapes with given features.
  • KY.1.G.2 Put 2-D and 3-D shapes together to make composite shapes and new shapes.
    • a. Combine flat shapes into rectangles, triangles and other figures.
    • b. Combine cubes, prisms, cones and cylinders into composite shapes.
  • KY.1.G.3 Split circles and rectangles into halves and fourths and use those words.

Tests and key dates

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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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