Provide your first-grade students with 10 to 15 minutes of daily math practice specifically developed to meet Common Core! The frequent, focused practice improves math skills, and each title includes downloadable home-school connection activities. How it works: Students complete five short math problems on days 1-4. The day 5 activity provides more extensive practice and asks students to think critically. The 36 weeks of grade-specific skill practice covers: - Operations strategies - Number relationships - Place value - Measurement and data - Shapes and patterns - Word problems This series also includes: - models and tools to aid students in solving problems and answering open-ended questions. - critical Common Core proficiencies for each grade level. - downloadable math activities and projects to offer reinforcing practice at home. - a detailed scope and sequence chart to help teachers map units to correlated skills. - student books in English and Spanish.