As a first-grade teacher, have you ever felt the frustration of not knowing which math skills your new students are bringing to Grade !? Do they recognize numbers? Can they count? If so, how far? Do they have one-to-one correspondence when they count? Can they solve simple addition and subtraction problems? Do they have critical thinking skills? Do they recognize patterns? Where do you begin to teach? To solve this problem, I decided to develop my own "test". The Readiness for Grade 1 Math Assessment was created while I was taking my Specialist in Primary/Junior Math. It was field-tested by teaching students in the Greater Toronto area and later used by my school board. The math assessment is based on the Principles of Counting which are fundamental concepts that help us understand how to count and quantify objects. Here are some key principles: Stable Order : The first principle of counting involves using a lis...