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This resource provides guidance and prompts for number recognition and counting. It also explores shapes using concrete materials including blocks.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Foundation
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
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Space
Topics	Properties of number, Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9MFN01 Name, represent and order numbers including zero to at least 20, using physical and virtual materials and numerals AC9MFN02 Recognise and name the number of objects within a collection up to 5 using subitising AC9MFN03 Quantify and compare collections to at least 20 using counting and explain or demonstrate reasoning
Numeracy progression	Counting processes (P4) Number and place value (P2, P3)
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Organisation	White Rose Maths
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