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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 1 Arithmetic contents for each year of the primary school curriculum

From: Development of the Arithmetic Subtest of the School Achievement Test-Second Edition

Grade

Content

1st

Counting

Sequencing

Addition

Subtraction

2nd

Counting

Sequencing

Addition

Subtraction

3rd

Sequencing

Composition and decomposition

Four natural operations

4th

Decimal numbers reported to the thousandth place

Composition 100.000

Four natural operations

Fractions: notions and comparison

5th

Decimal numbers reported to the billionth place: comparison and sequencing

Four natural operations

Fractions: notions and comparison

Fractions and percentages

Fractions and decimal numbers

Arithmetic operations with fractions and natural numbers

Fractions: equivalence and simplification

Numerical expressions

6th

Four natural operations

Comparison of decimal numbers

Fractional decimals

Fractions: order

Fractions: operations

Numerical expressions

7th

Whole numbers: comparison

Whole numbers: addition and subtraction

Whole numbers: multiplication and division

Ratios and proportions

Percentages

Numerical expressions

8th

Numerical expressions—rational numbers

Comparison and operations involving whole, rational, irrational, and real numbers

9th

Comparison and operations involving whole, rational, irrational, and real numbers

Exponentiation: operations

Radicals: operations