MathFest Skills 1st - 8th Grade

(Students will be exposed to work at the higher grades)

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First Grade

Compare sets using terms greater than, less than, and equal
Exchange equivalent quantities of coins and dollars
Exchange equivalent quantities of bills and count out a combination needed to purchase items less than fifth dollars
Name value of coins in groups of two and three coins together
Understanding place value up to 100s
Apply addition and subtraction to 2 digit numbers without regrouping
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction to 100 with regrouping
Tell time to the nearest fiftteen minutes
Interpret tally marks, picture graphs, and bar graphs
Identify, label and relate fractions as equal parts

  Second Grade

1. Interpret picture graphs, Venn diagrams, and bar graphs
2. Represent problem solving situations using addition, substraction, or multiplication
3. Model, identify, label and compare fractions
4. Tell time to the nearest five minutes
5. Understand place value to 1,000s
6. Count back change and use decimal notation and the dollar and cents symbol to represent a collection of coins and currency.
7. Use mental math to solve problems
8. Add and subtract two whole numbers up to three digits with regrouping
9. Estimate solutions

Third Grade

1. Identify place from tenths to ten thousand
2. Use the properties addition and substraction to compute and verify results of computations
3. Solve problems requiring addition and substraction
4. Use mulitplication
5. Solve problems requiring multiplication
6. Divide a 2 and 3-digit number by a 1-digit divisor
7. Solve problems requiring division
8. Understand a decimal fraction and common fractions
9. Model addition and subtraction of decimal fractions and common fractions
10. Solve problems by organizing an displaying data in bar graphs and tables
11. Construct and interpret bar graphs using scale increments of 1, 2, 5, and 10
12. Add and subract decimal franctions and common fractions with like denominators

Fourth Grade

1. Add and substract decimal fractions and common fractions with common denominators
2. Identify place values names and place from hundredths through one million
3. Round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand
4. Solve problems involving multiplication of 2-3 digit numbers by 1-2 digit numbers
5. Solve problems involving division by 2-digit numbers
6. Add and subtract both one and two digit decimal fractions
7. Multipy and divide both one and two digit decimal fractions by whole numbers
8. Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with common denominators
9. Covert and use mixed numbers and improper factions

Fifth Grade

1. Multiply and divide who numbers and decimal fractions
2. Add and subtract decimal fractions
3. Add and subtract common fractions with like denominators
4. Understand place value
5. Find equivalent fractions and simplify fractions
6. Add and subtract common fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
7. Estimate products and quotients
8. Anlyze data presented in a graph
9. Solve mathematics problems
10. Predict probability of a given event
11. Investigate algebraic expressions
12. Find area and perimeter of geometric figures
13. Solve word problems use skills from 1-10 above for 5th Grade

Sixth Grade

1. Add and subtract common fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
2. Determine the greatest common factors and least common mutiples for a set of numbers
3. Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
4. Multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers
5. Solve word problems involving fractions, decimals, and percents
6. Find length, perimeter, area, and volume
7. Solve problems involving scale drawings
8. Predict probability of a given event
9. use pictographs, histrograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots

Seventh Grade

1. Add, substract, multiply, and divide positive and negative rational numbers
2. Solve problems using rational numbers
3. Simplify and evaluate algebraic expressions
4. Add and subtract linear expressions
5. Solve equations and interpret the solution of a given problem
6. Analyze and draw conclusions about data, and use data to describe the relationship between two variables
7. Analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histrograms, bar graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs
8. Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
9. Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas
10. Construct frequency distributions
11. Predict the probability of a given event

Eighth Grade Skills

1. Find squre roots of perfect squares
2. Estimate square roots of positive numbers
3. Simplify expressions containing integer exponents
4. Solve problems involving fractions
5. Solve algebraic equations
6. Solve inequalities
7. Solve problems involving linear relationships
8. Find the probability of events
9. Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
10. Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs
11. Simplify, add, subtract, multiply, and divide expressions