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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.

Resource details
Year level
Year 1
Purpose
Teaching resource
Strand
Number
Topic
Properties of number
Audience
Teachers
Format
Webpage
Publisher
Australian Academy of Science
Copyright
© 2025 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Keywords
grouping counting number line estimation problem solving
Other terms
number operations