Number: Margot’s macaroni
In this sequence of three tasks, students take handfuls of macaroni and investigate efficient counting strategies to check whether their handful contains 100 pieces.
Additional details |
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| Year level(s) | Year 1 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching, Differentiated teaching |
| Keywords | grouping, counting, number lines, estimation, number operations, problem solving |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number |
| Topics | Properties of number |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M1N06
Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving equal sharing and grouping; represent the situations with diagrams, physical and virtual materials, and use calculation strategies to solve the problem
AC9M1N03
Quantify sets of objects, to at least 120, by partitioning collections into equal groups using number knowledge and skip counting
AC9M1N02
Partition one- and two-digit numbers in different ways using physical and virtual materials, including partitioning two-digit numbers into tens and ones
AC9M1N01
Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least 120 using physical and virtual materials, numerals, number lines and charts |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Australian Academy of Science |
| Copyright | © 2025 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
