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This resource provides guidance and prompts for number recognition and counting. It also explores shapes using concrete materials including blocks.
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| Year level(s) | Foundation |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | counting, subitising, ordering, shape, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Geometry |
| Topics | Properties of number, Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA001
Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point
ACMNA002
Connect number names, numerals and quantities, including zero, initially up to 10 and then beyond
ACMNA003
Subitise small collections of objects |
| National numeracy learning progression |
Quantifying numbers
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QuN1, QuN2, QuN3, QuN4
Understanding geometric properties |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | White Rose Maths |
| Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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