AC9MFN02 Foundation Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Foundation Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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

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