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Curriculum content descriptions

recognise and name the number of objects within a collection up to 5 using subitising (AC9MFN02)

Elaborations
  • recognising how many objects are in a collection or in images on a card with a quick look and saying the associated number without counting
  • playing instructive card games that rely on the recognition of numbers represented in different ways; for example, playing memory games, matching pairs of quantities on dot cards or similar where the arrangement on each is different; using subitising to compare and order collections and to say who has more when sharing items in a game
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Associativity,  Subitising

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