AC9MFN05 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.

represent practical situations involving addition, subtraction and quantification with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies

Elaborations

• 1 using role-play and materials to represent mathematical relationships in stories; for example, “Eight kangaroos were drinking at the river and \(3\) hopped away”; drawing a picture and using materials to represent the situation, discussing, and recording the result of the action with a numeral
• 2 role playing or actively engaging in situations that involve quantifying or comparing collections of items or simple money transactions; for example, “Do we have enough scissors for our group so that each person has their own pair?”; role-playing using \(\$1\) coins to pay for items in a shop where items are priced in whole dollars
• 3 representing situations expressed in First Nations Australians’ stories, such as “Tiddalick, the greedy frog”, that describe additive situations and their connections to Country/Place
• 4 representing addition and subtraction situations found in leaf games involving sets of objects used to tell stories, such as games from the Warlpiri Peoples of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory

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