Grade 1 Math (North Carolina SCOS)
Your Teacher Information Pack for Grade 1 Math (North Carolina SCOS): the standards with their official codes, in our own short summaries, plus tests and official links.
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- State
- North Carolina
- Grade
- Grade 1
- Source
- North Carolina K-12 Mathematics Standard Course of Study
- Last checked
- 2026-10-20
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The standards (our summaries)
Official North Carolina codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
- NC.1.OA.1 Solve addition and subtraction word problems within 20 with unknowns in all positions.
- NC.1.OA.2 Solve word problems that add three whole numbers with a sum up to 20.
- Understand and apply properties of operations
- NC.1.OA.3 Use the commutative and associative properties as strategies for adding.
- NC.1.OA.4 Solve unknown-addend problems within 20 using addition strategies or subtraction.
- Add and subtract within 20
- NC.1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20 using strategies such as counting on, making ten, and number lines.
- NC.1.OA.9 Add and subtract fluently within 10.
- Analyze addition and subtraction equations within 20
- NC.1.OA.7 Use the meaning of the equal sign to decide whether addition and subtraction equations are true.
- NC.1.OA.8 Find the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation with three numbers.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)
- Extend and recognize patterns in the counting sequence
- NC.1.NBT.1 Count to 150 starting from any number below 150.
- NC.1.NBT.7 Read and write numerals to 100 and use them to represent quantities.
- Understand place value
- NC.1.NBT.2 Understand two-digit numbers as tens and ones, including teen numbers and multiples of ten.
- NC.1.NBT.3 Compare two-digit numbers using tens and ones and record with >, =, and <.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
- NC.1.NBT.4 Add within 100 using place value strategies with models or drawings, explaining reasoning.
- NC.1.NBT.5 Mentally find 10 more or 10 less than a two-digit number and explain how.
- NC.1.NBT.6 Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10–90 and explain the reasoning.
Measurement and Data (MD)
- Measure lengths
- NC.1.MD.1 Order three objects by length and compare two lengths indirectly using a third object.
- NC.1.MD.2 Measure lengths with non-standard units laid end to end without gaps or overlaps.
- Build understanding of time and money
- NC.1.MD.3 Tell and write time in hours and half-hours on analog and digital clocks.
- NC.1.MD.5 Identify quarters, dimes, and nickels and relate their values to pennies.
- Represent and interpret data
- NC.1.MD.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories and answer comparison questions.
Geometry (G)
- Reason with shapes and their attributes
- NC.1.G.1 Tell defining from non-defining attributes and build shapes that have given defining attributes.
- NC.1.G.2 Create composite flat and solid shapes from simpler shapes and name their parts.
- NC.1.G.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares described as halves and fourths.
Tests and key dates
Check the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction for state tests and testing windows.
Official documents
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Standards codes from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCDPI). Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text – see NCDPI for the official wording.
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