Seven pages for one unit on money and patterns. Page 1 is a pre-check to give before the unit, to see what students already know. Pages 2 and 3 are a review to do together before the test, with a tip on every question. Pages 4 and 5 are the unit test, Form A. Pages 6 and 7 are Form B: the same questions in the same order with different coins and numbers, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 11 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page; the review asks the same 11 kinds of question in the same order. Coins are drawn at their true sizes next to each other, heads and tails, and every group to count holds only dimes, nickels and pennies.
This unit comes from state standards, and each question's states are printed on the answer keys. Questions 1 and 2 (naming coins and their values) are 1st grade in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Question 3 (counting one kind of coin) is in all of those but Georgia, and questions 4 and 5 (mixed groups of coins) are in Florida, Indiana and Texas. Questions 6 to 8 (income, needs and wants, spend, save and share) are Texas lessons. Question 9 (repeating patterns) is in Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia, question 10 (growing patterns) in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia, and question 11 (number patterns) in Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma and Virginia. Leave out the parts your state does not teach and score out of the questions you give. Give the pre-check on the first day of the unit and do the review the day before the test, reading the tips aloud.
Use the review as practice before a test at school, or Form B as a check after the unit. Empty a pocket or a coin jar and count the coins together, dimes first, then nickels, then pennies. Look for patterns at home, like tiles, socks or stairs, and ask what comes next.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A unit test for money and patterns in 1st grade, a unit that comes from state standards (Common Core has no 1st grade money or patterns): a one-page pre-check, a two-page review with a tip on every question, and the unit test in two forms (A and B) that ask the same questions with different coins and numbers. Students name pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, write what each coin is worth with the cent sign, count rows of one kind of coin and groups of dimes, nickels and pennies to 99¢, pick out income and needs, sort spend, save and share, continue repeating patterns and name them with letters, draw the next step of a growing pattern, and continue number patterns. The test goes coins first, then the Texas money lessons, then patterns, so a class can take only the parts its state teaches. Answer keys name the skill and the states of every question.
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