Mathematics / Foundation / Number and Algebra / Number and place value

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Subitise small collections of objects (ACMNA003)

Elaborations
  • using subitising as the basis for ordering and comparing collections of numbers
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
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Subitising

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Tray Bake

This resource is a web page containing a short task to explore counting patterns. Dominoes are used to make counting patterns, add the next two dominoes that follow the pattern. A printable resource is also available to support the task. This resource is an activity from the NRICH website.

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Investigating the Dilution Series

This resource is a web page containing a short task to explore counting patterns. Dominoes are used to make counting patterns, add the next two dominoes that follow the pattern. A printable resource is also available to support the task. This resource is an activity from the NRICH website.

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Next Domino

This resource is a web page containing a short task to explore counting patterns. Dominoes are used to make counting patterns, add the next two dominoes that follow the pattern. A printable resource is also available to support the task. This resource is an activity from the NRICH website.

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New shapes can be made by joining or partitioning existing shapes

This 2-week unit develops students' understanding of how new shapes can be made from existing shapes by exploring the attributes of shapes, and by using combination and partitioning. Students learn that: two-dimensional shapes can be made by joining and partitioning existing shapes; shapes have attributes that are necessary ...

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Equal means equivalent

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of equivalence and how it is represented in mass and whole numbers. Students are provided opportunities to: develop an understanding of equal as equivalence through exploring mass; explore and reason about number relations; use number relations in combining ...

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Data helps describe and wonder about the world

This two-week unit introduces students to methods of displaying and interpreting sorted data, measuring the duration of time and reading and representing hour time. Students are provided opportunities to: collect, sort and organise data into displays; interpret data through posing and responding to questions; compare the ...

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Measuring length and time

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of what you want to describe decides the unit of measure you use. Students are provided with opportunities to: compare and describe the attributes of measurement, experiment with length and tell the time.

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Collections of objects can be changed by adding more or taking some away

This two-week unit introduces students to solving problems by comparing, combining and separating quantities. Students are provided opportunities to: combine 2 or more groups to identify the relationship between the parts and the whole; compare 2 or more groups to determine equality or how many more; separate and take away ...

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Collections of ten are really useful

This two-week unit develops student knowledge and understanding that skills of collections of 10 are really useful. Students are provided opportunities to: represent numbers in a variety of ways; reason about the way numbers can be combined and separated; use positional language both in a physical world context and in more ...

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Patterns have something that repeats over and over and over again

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of patterns. Students are provided opportunities to: copy, continue and create patterns in a variety of forms; identify part-whole relationships in numbers up to 10; use visual representation to assist in combing and separating quantities.

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Making and using equal groups

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of making and using equal groups. Students are provided opportunities to: recognise equal and unequal groups and share collections by forming equal groups.

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Finding halves

This two-week unit introduces students to a half as two equal parts of a whole and the use of symbols as efficient communication for mathematical ideas. Students are provided opportunities to: recognise two equal parts as halves of a collection, a measure, a shape or an object; find and describe the halfway point in a length; ...

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A fraction (like one half) can mean half of a measure or half of a collection

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of combining, separating, comparing and forming groups with quantities. Students are provided opportunities to: combine and separate quantities to identify the smaller parts that are found within a total quantity; compare quantities and identify the ...

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The Mathscots: Puppy School Obstacle Course

In this animated video, Poly the puppy makes her way through an obstacle course which features 2D shapes and 3D objects. The mathematical focus is on sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes; recognising 2D shapes within 3D objects; understanding and using terms such as ‘first’ ...

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Yuendumu leaf games: create a poster

In this final of these three lessons, students work in groups to reflect on and record their learning about representing number stories using Yuendumu leaf games and stories. They represent their leaf stories using pictures and numerals.

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Yuendumu leaf game: introduction

In this first of three lessons, students investigate the concept of Yuendumu leaf games and stories and become familiar with how they can be used for addition, subtraction, quantification, counting and subitising.

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Yuendumu leaf games: representing stories

In this second of three lessons, students are provided with the opportunity to play with their leaf families, and consider the many possibilities. They represent their leaf stories using pictures, numerals and symbols.

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Addition Foundation - Calculate

The focus of this activity is to discover if students can represent numbers, without the need to count from 1. If students ‘trust the count’ from here they will be able to use strategies to combine collections. If students do not ‘trust the count’ they may be able to combine two collections by counting by ones, but this ...

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Work sample Foundation Year Mathematics: Knowing numbers

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Foundation Year Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Spot the number

Students recognise amounts to five without counting.