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Year 1 mathematics at school: What to expect

Find out about the skills your Year 1 child will be developing at school. Learn how you can support them to count and begin to recognise number sentences.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1
Audience	Parent or carer
Purpose	Home practice tasks, Parent guide to maths
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Culturally responsive pedagogies, Questioning
Keywords	maths at home, numeracy, number sense, understanding, reasoning, fluency
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Number, Space, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Place value, Operating with number
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1N01 Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least 120 using physical and virtual materials, numerals, number lines and charts AC9M1N04 Add and subtract numbers within 20, using physical and virtual materials, part-part-whole knowledge to 10 and a variety of calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Number and place value (P3, P4) Additive strategies (P6)
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Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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