Grade 1 Extra Help: Maths

When a child needs a little extra help with maths, another explanation isn’t always the answer. Sometimes they simply need more opportunities to see it, practice it and finally say, “Oh! I get it.”

Building strong maths foundations in Grade 1 is important because so many of the skills children learn now become the building blocks for the maths that follows.

Grade 1 Extra Help: Maths is a comprehensive 154-page printable PDF workbook for children aged 6 years and older, created to provide extensive additional practice across a wide range of early maths concepts.

Rather than concentrating on just one skill, this large resource brings multiple maths topics together in one place, making it especially useful for children who need reinforcement, revision or simply more practice.

What’s Inside?

The workbook begins with foundational number work and gradually gives children opportunities to practice maths in many different ways.

The Numbers 1–10 section explores each number individually. Children work with both the numeral and number word, complete number-writing activities, draw or colour specific quantities and practice concepts such as more than and less than.

For example, children don’t simply learn that 4 is “four”. They complete the number and word, work with groups of four objects and then answer questions involving four more or four less. This gives them repeated exposure to the same number through several different activities.

The workbook then expands into a much broader collection of Grade 1 maths practice.

Children work with number order and sequencing, including identifying numbers that come before, in the middle or after other numbers.

They also explore place value through activities that include printable number pieces, giving learners another way to work with how numbers are constructed.

Addition and Subtraction Practice

A substantial part of early maths is learning what addition and subtraction actually mean—not simply memorizing answers.

This workbook provides varied practice with these operations, including visual activities where children work from pictures, create equations and solve number sentences.

The subtraction section, for example, asks children to strike out pictures to represent the amount being taken away before completing the sum. Other activities use number lines to support counting and subtraction, while further worksheets introduce subtraction tables and repeated subtraction patterns.

Children are also challenged to create subtraction equations from groups of pictures, helping them connect what they see visually with the mathematical symbols used to represent it.

This variety is valuable because a child who struggles to understand a concept one way may suddenly grasp it when it is presented differently.

More Than Just Sums

Maths in Grade 1 goes well beyond addition and subtraction, and this workbook reflects that.

Children encounter a broad range of mathematical concepts and activities throughout the resource.

There are graphing and data activities, where learners count objects or shapes and then represent those quantities on a graph. This helps children begin making the connection between information they collect and the way that information can be visually represented.

Children also practice comparing quantities and arranging numbers from the least to the most, helping develop an understanding of numerical order and comparison.

The workbook includes practical measurement-related concepts too. For example, learners explore volume by identifying glasses as empty, half or full.

There is also work involving halves, where children visually divide quantities and calculate half of numbers such as 8, 10, 14, 16 and 20.

Shape work is included as well, with printable 3D shapes such as the cylinder, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid, sphere and triangular prism. The resource itself notes that Grade 1 learners do not have to learn about 3D shapes, making this an additional enrichment opportunity within the booklet.

Why Teachers and Parents Will Love It

Sometimes a child doesn’t need an entirely new maths programme.

They need extra practice with the things that haven’t quite clicked yet.

That is exactly where a large resource like Grade 1 Extra Help: Maths becomes useful.

With 154 pages, teachers and parents can choose the activities that suit the learner rather than expecting every child to complete the entire workbook from beginning to end.

Struggling with number recognition? Choose those pages.

Need more subtraction practice? Print the subtraction worksheets.

Working on graphs? Pull out the graphing activities.

Need revision across several concepts? Create your own practice pack from the pages provided.

This flexibility makes the workbook useful for additional classroom practice, homeschooling, intervention, revision and learning support at home.

It also means parents don’t have to hunt for a new worksheet every time their child needs extra practice with another maths concept. There is a substantial bank of activities ready to print and use.

Advantages of This Resource

• A substantial 154-page maths resource
• Designed for children aged 6+ years
• Covers a broad selection of early maths concepts
• Provides additional practice for Grade 1 learners
• Reinforces number recognition and number words
• Includes number-writing and quantity activities
• Develops understanding of more than and less than
• Provides number ordering and sequencing practice
• Includes place-value activities
• Offers extensive addition and subtraction practice
• Uses pictures to help make mathematical operations more visual
• Includes number-line activities
• Encourages children to create and complete mathematical equations
• Includes graphing and data-handling activities
• Develops comparison skills such as least and most
• Introduces practical concepts involving volume
• Includes activities involving halves
• Includes shape-related learning and additional 3D shape resources
• Provides varied activities rather than relying on one worksheet format
• Allows teachers and parents to select specific pages according to a learner’s needs
• Useful for reinforcement when a child needs more practice with a particular concept
• Suitable for classroom learning, homeschooling, revision and extra help at home
• Individual worksheets can be printed again whenever additional practice is needed

Age: 6+ years
Pages: 154
Level: Grade 1 / Extra Maths Practice
Skills: Number recognition, number words, counting, number sequencing, more and less, place value, addition, subtraction, problem-solving, fractions/halves, measurement concepts, shapes, graphing and data handling
Format: Digital PDF

This is a digital, printable product. No physical workbook will be shipped. After purchase, simply download the PDF and print the worksheets you would like to use. Pencils, crayons, scissors, laminating materials and other physical supplies are not included.

A child who is struggling with maths doesn’t necessarily need harder work. They often need the right practice, presented in enough different ways for understanding to finally fall into place.

With Grade 1 Extra Help: Maths, teachers and parents have 154 pages of ready-to-print practice at their fingertips, making it easier to revisit difficult concepts, strengthen important foundations and help young learners approach maths with greater confidence.