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Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions
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"A great way to get students thinking about math. Until we started a new curriculum with less time, I used them every week, but thinking about going back to them again."
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AnnMarie H.

Description

Hello! I hope you enjoy these First Grade Open-Ended Math Prompts. They can be used in a variety of ways:

-in your everyday math journals/notebooks

-as homework with a parent

-in guided math groups

These are different to my other math notebook products as they require students to solely explain their thinking and create answers that (for the most part) have many possible answers. These prompts also require no scissors since they are creating numbers sentences, drawing pictures and explaining their reasoning.

*PLEASE NOTE: this will have some questions from my kindergarten and second grade products to allow for differentiation. Please contact me before purchasing if you have any other open-ended prompts.

What others are saying:

"My students get so much out of discussing these in small group. They can compare answers and often challenge each other to prove their answer if there are disagreements." -Devona P.

"Love this higher level thinking resource for my kids." -Carrie L.

"Lots of questions to choose from! Organized by domain makes it easy to look for specific questions!" -Mandy W.

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I’d love to hear from you if you have any questions about my resources! Email:

thesimplenotebook@gmail.com

Kelli : )

Picture examples included!

ALL DOMAINS INCLUDED!!

-1.OA

-1.NBT

-1.MD

-1.G

*updated with an extra file strictly for essential questions!*

*Kindergarten Open-Ended Questions here

*Second Grade Open-Ended Questions here

Kindergarten full page version here

First Grade full page version here

Looking for other math notebook resources?

How to Use K-2 Notebooks

Data and Graphing

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Telling Time

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Geometry

Addition

Subtraction

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Math Notebooks: First Grade Open-Ended Questions

The Simple Notebook
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What others say

"A great way to get students thinking about math. Until we started a new curriculum with less time, I used them every week, but thinking about going back to them again."
star
AnnMarie H.

Description

Hello! I hope you enjoy these First Grade Open-Ended Math Prompts. They can be used in a variety of ways:

-in your everyday math journals/notebooks

-as homework with a parent

-in guided math groups

These are different to my other math notebook products as they require students to solely explain their thinking and create answers that (for the most part) have many possible answers. These prompts also require no scissors since they are creating numbers sentences, drawing pictures and explaining their reasoning.

*PLEASE NOTE: this will have some questions from my kindergarten and second grade products to allow for differentiation. Please contact me before purchasing if you have any other open-ended prompts.

What others are saying:

"My students get so much out of discussing these in small group. They can compare answers and often challenge each other to prove their answer if there are disagreements." -Devona P.

"Love this higher level thinking resource for my kids." -Carrie L.

"Lots of questions to choose from! Organized by domain makes it easy to look for specific questions!" -Mandy W.

Stay Connected!

Follow me on TPT for monthly freebies

Pinterest

Instagram

I’d love to hear from you if you have any questions about my resources! Email:

thesimplenotebook@gmail.com

Kelli : )

Picture examples included!

ALL DOMAINS INCLUDED!!

-1.OA

-1.NBT

-1.MD

-1.G

*updated with an extra file strictly for essential questions!*

*Kindergarten Open-Ended Questions here

*Second Grade Open-Ended Questions here

Kindergarten full page version here

First Grade full page version here

Looking for other math notebook resources?

How to Use K-2 Notebooks

Data and Graphing

Word Problems

Place Value

Telling Time

Measurement

Geometry

Addition

Subtraction

THE BUNDLE

Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

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Great way to get students thinking
Rated 5 out of 5
October 15, 2025
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A great way to get students thinking about math. Until we started a new curriculum with less time, I used them every week, but thinking about going back to them again.
AnnMarie H.
62 reviews • New York
Grades taught: 1st
Student populations: Learning difficulties
Rated 5 out of 5
August 4, 2023
My students did an awesome job with their journal responses in our geometry unit. Looking forward to using this resource year-round.
Mandi P.
304 reviews
Grades taught: 1st
Rated 5 out of 5
August 4, 2022
This was so helpful to me when I moved to teaching first grade from K. I used this in so many ways. Great variety of questions.
Vanessa C.
106 reviews
Grades taught: 1st
Rated 5 out of 5
June 14, 2021
Great resource to use for journals!
Silmarie W.
40 reviews
Grades taught: 1st
Rated 5 out of 5
February 21, 2021
This is great for math journal prompts.
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163 reviews
Grades taught: 1st
Rated 5 out of 5
February 26, 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5
August 7, 2019
Great for math journals!
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Rated 5 out of 5
July 24, 2019
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
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