AC9MFN05 Foundation Mathematics

AC9MFN05 – Foundation Mathematics: null

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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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• 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
• 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
• representing situations expressed in First Nations Australians’ stories, such as “Tiddalick, the greedy frog”, that describe additive situations and their connections to Country/Place
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Foundation ASMATFY

Foundation Mathematics Achievement Standard

By the end of Foundation Year, students make connections between number names, numerals and position in the sequence of numbers from zero to at least 20. They use subitising and counting strategies to quantify collections. Students compare the size of collections to at least 20. They partition and combine collections up to 10 in different ways, representing these with numbers. Students represent practical situations that involve quantifying, equal sharing, adding to and taking away from collections to at least 10. They copy and continue repeating patterns. Students identify the attributes of mass, capacity, length and duration, and use direct comparison strategies to compare objects and events. They sequence and connect familiar events to the time of day. Students name, create and sort familiar shapes and give their reasoning. They describe the position and the location of themselves and objects in relation to other objects and people within a familiar space. Students collect, sort and compare data in response to questions in familiar contexts.