AC9MFN02 Foundation Mathematics

Content descriptor recognise and name the number of objects within a collection up to 5 using subitising

Elaborations

• • Elaboration recognising how many objects are in a collection or in images on a card with a quick look and saying the associated number without counting
• • Elaboration playing instructive card games that rely on the recognition of numbers represented in different ways; for example, playing memory games, matching pairs of quantities on dot cards or similar where the arrangement on each is different; using subitising to compare and order collections and to say who has more when sharing items in a game