AC9MFN06 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 that involve equal sharing and grouping with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies

Elaborations

• 1 using materials to role-play equal sharing; for example, sharing pieces of fruit or a bunch of grapes between \(4\) people and discussing how you would know they have been shared equally; when playing card games where each player is dealt the same number of cards, and counting the number of cards after the deal to ensure they have the same amount
• 2 representing situations that involve counting several items; for example, \(9\) beads or \(6\) \(\$1\) coins, and sharing them equally between \(3\) people by subitising or counting each group by ones to decide how many beads or coins each person will receive
• 3 exploring instructive games of First Nations Australians that involve sharing; for example, playing Yangamini of the Tiwi Peoples of Bathurst Island to investigate and discuss equal sharing

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