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, Geometry, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Place value, Operating with number
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMNA012 Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero ACMNA015 Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including counting on, partitioning and rearranging parts
National numeracy learning progression	Additive strategies Quantifying numbers - QuN5, QuN6
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Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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