Built on the NCTM Curriculum Focal Points

With over 400 curriculum assignments across 19 units, Aha!Math provides critical instruction and practice in the foundational math concepts so critical to future success in math. Educators have access to content from all grade levels, giving them the ability to support differentiated learning to target their students specific learning needs.

Aligned to NCTM Focal Points* for grades K-5
Aha!Math addresses the following strands:

  • Numbers and operations
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Algebra
  • Data analysis and probability

Grade K-2 units consist of Games and Activities.

Grade 3-5 units consist of Instructional Modules, Lessons, Games, Activities, and Quizzes.

Unit 1: Understanding Whole Numbers to 10 — Grade K
  • Introduction to numbers, numerals, and sets
  • Count, compare, and order sets
  • Join and separate sets of 20 or less
  • Quick recognition of numbers and numerals
Unit 2: Shapes and Space — Grade K
  • Names and descriptions of shapes and solids
  • Describe orientation and position
  • Compare shapes to determine size
  • Explore composition and decomposition of shapes
Unit 3: Comparing Lengths and Time — Grade K
  • Measurable attributes of space and time
  • Direct and indirect methods to measure, compare and sequence shapes
Unit 4: Understanding Basic Addition and Subtraction: Facts to 18 — Grades K-1
  • Variety of models to learn basic addition and subtraction facts through 18
  • Commutative and associative properties
  • Relationship between commutative and associative properties
Unit 5: Place Value: Ones and Tens — Grade 1
  • Counting patterns through 100
  • Place value to the tens place
  • Use of the number line
  • Greater than and less than
  • Comparison of tens and number ordering
Unit 6: Pieces of Shapes — Grade 1
  • Use composition and decomposition to learn about properties of shapes and solids
  • Concepts of congruence and symmetry
Unit 7: Understanding Numbers to 1000 — Grades 1-2
  • Place value for numbers through 1000
  • Compose, decompose, compare and order whole numbers
  • Extend to numbers with four to six digits
Unit 8: Addition and Subtraction of Multi-Digit Numbers — Grade 2
  • Add and subtract larger numbers, both with and without regrouping
  • Introduces estimation as a tool for verifying accuracy of answers
  • Foundation for multiplication of numbers
Unit 9: Linear Measurement — Grade 2
  • Develop fluency with measuring length using standard and non-standard units
  • Solve problems involving measuring length
Unit 10: Multiplication and Facts to 10 — Grades 2-3
  • Introduction to multiplication as a way to count objects arranged in equal sets
  • Developing fluency with basic multiplication facts from 0 x 0 to 10 x 10
  • Commutative property and the relationship between multiplication and division
Unit 11: Fractions — Grade 3
  • Introduction of fractions through pictorial models
  • Becoming familiar with common fractions
  • Equivalent fractions
  • Writing and recognizing improper and mixed fractions
Unit 12: 2-D Shapes and Transformations — Grade 3
  • Elementary geometry
  • Common shapes and their properties
  • Congruence and similarity
  • Line symmetry and transformations
  • Rudiments of area on the plane
Unit 13: Multiplication Facts - 11 and 12 — Grades 3-4
  • Elementary geometry
  • Introduction of the distributive property
  • Develop and practice the algorithm for multiplying large numbers
  • Estimation with multiplication
Unit 14: Decimals and Fractions — Grade 4
  • Decimals as an extension of place value
  • Relationship to fractions in denoting quantities less than a whole
  • Comparing, ordering, rounding and estimating decimals
Unit 15: 2-D Shapes and Area — Grade 4
  • Measure area with unit squares
  • Extend knowledge to calculating area of common shapes using multiplication
  • Finding area
Unit 16: Whole Number Division — Grades 4-5
  • Review of relationship between division and multiplication
  • Long division algorithm up to two-digits
  • Estimation, divisibility, factors and multiples
  • Division with remainders
Unit 17: Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Decimals — Grade 5
  • Addition and subtraction of fractions with like and unlike denominators and mixed numbers
  • Addition and subtraction of decimals
  • Estimation
  • Connection between operations on fractions and operations on decimals
Unit 18: 3-D Shapes including Surface Area and Volume — Grade 5
  • Types of 3-D solids and how to calculate surface area of prisms
  • Calculate volumes of cubes, prisms, and more complicated single and composite solids
  • Learn strategies for estimating volume
Unit 19: Multiplication and Division of Fractions and Decimals — Grades 5-6
  • Strategies and techniques used to multiply and divide by fractions and decimals
  • Application of the number pi
  • Techniques to multiply by decimals to find the circumference and area of a circle and the volume of a cylinder.