Addition and subtraction: Foundation – planning tool
This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Addition and subtraction. Students begin to appreciate patterns that occur around them. They learn to recognise, copy and continue different repeating patterns and observe natural patterns in the world around them.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Addition and subtraction
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFN05
- Numeracy progression
- Counting processes (CP2) Additive strategies (P2) Number and place value (P3)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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