1st Grade Math (South Dakota Content Standards)
Your Teacher Information Pack for 1st Grade Math in South Dakota: 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
- South Dakota
- Grade
- Grade 1
- Standards
- South Dakota State Standards for Mathematics
- Last checked
- 2026-10-21
New South Dakota math standards take effect in 2027-28; this page covers the current 2018 standards.
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The standards (our summaries)
South Dakota'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.1 Solve add and subtract story problems within 20 of every type (joining, separating, part-whole, comparing) with the unknown anywhere.
- 1.OA.2 Solve word problems that add three whole numbers with a total of 20 or less.
- 1.OA.3 Use the commutative, associative and identity properties as strategies to add.
- 1.OA.4 Understand subtraction as finding an unknown addend.
- 1.OA.5 Understand counting on as adding and counting back as subtracting.
- 1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20, fluent within 10, using strategies such as making ten.
- 1.OA.7 Understand the equal sign and decide if addition and subtraction equations are true or false.
- 1.OA.8 Find the missing whole number that makes an addition or subtraction equation true.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)
- 1.NBT.1 Extend the counting sequence to 120.
- 1.NBT.2 Understand that a 2-digit number's digits mean tens and ones.
- 1.NBT.3 Compare two-digit numbers using <, = and >.
- 1.NBT.4 Add within 100, understanding when a ten must be made.
- 1.NBT.5 Find 10 more or 10 less than a two-digit number mentally.
- 1.NBT.6 Subtract multiples of ten in the range 10–90, using strategies and explaining them.
Measurement and Data (MD)
- 1.MD.1 Order three objects by length and compare two lengths using a third object.
- 1.MD.2 Give length as a whole number of units laid end to end with no gaps or overlaps.
- 1.MD.3 Tell and write time to the hour and half hour on analog and digital clocks.
- 1.MD.4 Sort, show and talk about data in as many as three categories.
- 1.MD.5 South Dakota addition: identify nickels and dimes and count pennies, nickels and dimes by value. (being checked)
Geometry (G)
Tests and key dates
- SD-SA (South Dakota State Assessment) (official page)
Check the South Dakota 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 South Dakota State Standards for Mathematics (SDDOE). Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text. Not affiliated with or endorsed by SDDOE.
Codes are facts; the descriptions are our own short summaries, not the official text. Always check the official document.
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