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Skills Covered

  • Make a ten from ten ones
  • Know teen numbers as a ten and some ones
  • Know 20 to 90 as tens and no ones
  • Write two-digit numbers as tens and ones, and as 40 + 7
  • Show one number in more than one way
  • Compare numbers with base-ten blocks
  • Compare numbers to 100 with >, < and =
  • Order three numbers to 120
  • Place two-digit numbers on a number line
  • Sort numbers in a Venn diagram; number words to 100

How to Use This Pack

Seven pages for one unit on tens and ones. 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 numbers, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 12 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day of the unit and sort the class by what they missed. Do the review the day before the test, reading the tips aloud, with base-ten blocks on the tables. Question 12 (number words to 100) is taught in 1st grade in Florida and Oklahoma: leave it out and score out of 11 if your class does not learn it. The answer keys name each question's skill, so a missed question points to the lesson to reteach.

At Home

Use the review as practice before a test at school, or Form B as a check after the unit. Count a pile of small things by making groups of ten, and ask your child how many tens and how many ones there are.

Tips for Success

  • Read the questions aloud for students who are still learning to read
  • Keep base-ten blocks or bundles of straws out for the review
  • Ask "how many tens?" before "how many ones?"
  • When comparing, look at the tens first
  • Use Form B as a retake after reteaching what was missed

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 1.NBT.A.1 Count up to 120 from any starting number, and read, write and use numerals up to 120 to show how many objects.
  • 1.NBT.B.2a See a group of ten ones as one unit called a ten.
  • 1.NBT.B.2b Know that 11 through 19 are each made of one ten plus 1 to 9 ones.
  • 1.NBT.B.2c Know that 10, 20, 30 and so on up to 90 mean 1 to 9 tens with no ones.
  • 1.NBT.B.3 Compare two-digit numbers by looking at their tens and ones, and write the result with >, = or <.
  • 2.NBT.A.3 Read and write numbers up to 1,000 as digits, in words, and in expanded form (like 300 + 40 + 7).
  • 2.MD.B.6 Show whole numbers as distances from 0 on an evenly marked number line, and show sums and differences up to 100 as jumps on it.

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1st Grade Place Value Test

1st Grade

A unit test for tens and ones in 1st grade: 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 numbers. Students circle groups of ten, write teen numbers and decade numbers as tens and ones, read base-ten blocks, write numbers as tens plus ones, find two pictures that show the same number, compare numbers with blocks and with >, < and =, put three numbers to 120 in order, place numbers on a number line and sort numbers in a Venn diagram. The last question (number words to 100) is for the states that teach it in 1st grade. Answer keys name the skill and standard of every question.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions)
  • A two-page review with a tip on every question
  • The unit test in two forms, A and B (12 questions each)
  • Answer keys that name each question's skill and standard (14 pages in all)
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