Mathematics / Year 1 / Number and Algebra / Patterns and algebra

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate and describe number patterns formed by skip-counting and patterns with objects (ACMNA018)

Elaborations
  • using place-value patterns beyond the teens to generalise the number sequence and predict the next number
  • investigating patterns in the number system, such as the occurrence of a particular digit in the numbers to 100
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Patterns,  Skip counting

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