Uganda Primary 1 Curriculum - Mathematics

This curriculum focuses on developing foundational numeracy skills through a thematic approach, integrating mathematics into everyday contexts relevant to learners' experiences. The curriculum aims to equip learners with basic mathematical skills and knowledge to prepare them for further learning.

Term 1

• Theme 1: Our School: This theme introduces basic mathematical concepts through familiar school settings. Topics include sorting, comparing, matching, and counting objects up to 5. Learners also explore addition by adding one more object to a group. Activities involve using concrete objects like stones and pictures.
• Theme 2: Our Home: Building upon the concepts learned in the previous theme, this theme extends counting skills up to 10. Learners explore comparing sizes (bigger/smaller, wider/narrower) and measure height using non-standard units. Activities include forming sets, playing number games, and adding orally up to 5 using concrete objects. The theme also introduces writing number symbols from 1 to 5.
• Theme 3: Our Community: This theme reinforces counting skills up to 20 and introduces writing number symbols up to 9. Learners practice forming sets, sorting, sequencing, and matching. Basic addition is practiced orally with sums less than 20. The concept of measuring capacity using containers is also introduced.
• Theme 4: The Human Body and Health: This theme extends counting skills up to 40 and introduces writing number symbols up to 20. Learners practice measuring length using non-standard measures like hands and feet. They also explore adding two numbers with sums less than 9 horizontally. Telling time according to months of the year is introduced using natural events.

Term 2

• Theme 5: Weather: This theme reinforces counting up to 40 and writing number symbols up to 30. Learners practice adding numbers with sums less than 20 vertically without carrying. They also learn to read and write number names from 1 to 5. Activities include matching, sorting, and sequencing related to weather elements.
• Theme 6: Accidents and Safety: This theme extends counting up to 60 and writing number symbols up to 40. Learners practice writing number names from 6 to 10 and matching them to symbols. They explore the concept of multiplication through repeated addition of 2s. Adding numbers with sums less than 40 vertically and horizontally without carrying is also practiced. Measuring capacity and distance using non-standard units is introduced.
• Theme 7: Living Together: This theme reinforces counting up to 70 and introduces writing number symbols from 41 to 50 and number names from 11 to 15. Learners practice adding numbers with sums less than 50 vertically without carrying and subtracting up to 20 vertically without borrowing. They also explore the concept of halves and wholes. Activities involve forming sets related to family members and playing number games.
• Theme 8: Food and Nutrition: This theme reinforces counting up to 80 and introduces writing number symbols from 61 to 70 and number names from 26 to 30. Learners practice matching symbols to number names from 16 to 20. They explore adding numbers vertically with sums less than 60 without carrying and subtracting up to 30 without borrowing. The concept of quarters is introduced through drawings.

Term 3

• Theme 9: Our Transport: This theme reinforces counting up to 90 and introduces writing number symbols from 81 to 90 and number names from 31 to 35. Learners practice matching number symbols to number names. They explore multiplication by 3 using repeated addition. Classifying means of transport according to size, color, and type is also introduced.
• Theme 10: Things We Make: This theme reinforces counting up to 99 and introduces writing number symbols up to 90 and number names from 41 to 60. Learners practice matching number symbols to number names. They explore adding numbers with sums less than 80 without carrying and subtracting up to 80 without borrowing. Activities include forming sets and comparing objects.
• Theme 11: Our Environment: This theme reinforces counting up to 99 and writing number symbols and number names up to 99. Learners practice adding numbers with sums up to 99 without borrowing and subtracting up to 99 without borrowing. Multiplication by 2, 3, and 10 is introduced. Recording data in the form of pictographs is also explored.
• Theme 12: Peace and Security: This theme reinforces counting up to 99 and writing number symbols and number names up to 99. Learners practice adding and subtracting numbers up to 99 without carrying or borrowing. Multiplication by 10 is introduced, and reciting multiplication tables up to 10 is practiced. Comparing weight and length of objects is also explored.