The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was developed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in response to Texas House Bill 72 (1984), which mandated a new basic skills assessment program for mathematics, reading, and writing at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. This document is one in a series of Instructional Strategies Guides designed to familiarize Texas educators with the types of strategies employed in assessing learner mastery of TEAMS objectives and to provide suggested instructional activities that can be used to promote mastery of those objectives. This guide focuses on the TEAMS mathematics objectives for grade 1. It provides a detailed description of the test items used to measure each mathematics objective. The eight objectives are subsumed under five skill areas: (1) number concepts (number sequence, place value, number comparison); (2) computation (addition, subtraction); (3) problem solving (word problems involving addition/subtraction); (4) measurement (time); and (5) geometry (geometric shapes). The following information is provided for each objective: (1) a description of the objective; (2) a sample item; (3) test questions; (4 a description of responses to each multiple choice or open-ended test item; (5) answer analysis for sample items; (6) instructional emphases; and (7) possible instructional activities. (JAZ)