AC9MFSP01 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.

sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons

Elaborations

• 1 sorting a collection of shapes into groups based on different features such as the number of sides, colour or size, and describing how they have been sorted
• 2 creating a picture using a variety of shapes and a range of materials, including objects to trace around, describing the shapes they have created or used and sharing why they chose each shape in their picture
• 3 creating familiar shapes using groups of people; for example, holding hands and creating a circle
• 4 recognising and naming shapes that are (close to) rectangles, squares, triangles and circles in component parts of everyday items; for example, on bicycles, toy vehicles or kitchen pantry items
• 5 describing and naming shapes within objects that can be observed on Country/Place, recreating and sorting into groups based on their shape

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