Whole Numbers
• revision of numbers 1 to 10
• counting up to 20
• groups of 1 to 10 objects
• patterns
• ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)
• introduction to zero as a number
• terminology: between, under, behind, left and right

Addition
• introduction to addition
• number chart 1 to 10
• counting and identifying numbers to 10
• introduction of the + sign - and the word “plus”

Subtraction
• introduction to subtraction
• introduction to the = sign
• introduction to the - sign
• subtracting 1 to 10 from numbers up to 10 (horizontal format)
• introduction to the vertical format
• using addition to check a subtraction

Multiplication
• introduction to multiplication
• recognizing and creating groups
• grouping items (1-10)
• counting items within groups (1 to 10 per group)
• counting groups (up to 10 groups)
• making different groups from one number

Fractions
• Commences at Purple level

Time and Money
• Review and extension of Blue level
• sequence of events (Relational - between, in front, behind,
beside, side by side, up, down, under, over, on top, near)
• sequence of events (Positional - 1st to 31st, first, ...., thirty-first)
• days of the week and weekend
• durations: shorter, longer, shortest, longest, faster, slower,
fastest, slowest
• associated language: yesterday, today, tommorow
• identification of money: 5c, 10, 20c, 50c, $1, $2, $5, $10; colour, shape, size, edge, animals, numbers
• shopping when no change given

Measurement
• concept of mass: heavy, light, same, heavier, lighter
• concept of length: comparison of 2 and more objects (tall/short/long, taller/shorter/longer, tallest/shortest/longest, high/low, higher/lower, hightest/lowest)
• concept of length: comparison of 2 and more objects(wide/narrow, wider/narrower, etc)
• concept of area: elementary introduction to covering a surface
• concept of volume: elementary introduction to volume
(full/empty, holds more than, holds less than, holds as much as, nearly full/empty)

Space
• identify and describe positions
• positional: right/left, in/out, outside/inside, etc
• relational: same/different, big/little, etc
• operational:the same, sort, fit, join together, match, cover
• geometric: shape, flat, round/curved, etc
• compare and classify plane shapes: according to one attribute
• identify and describe 3-D shapes (solids)
• geometric: box shapes; ball shapes, can shapes
• compare and classify according to one attribute
• line: concept of the line and the use of the word “line”
• symmetry: exploration through plane shapes

Chance and data
• one-to-one correspondence: physical pairing of objects
• language: matches, does not match, each, none, all, enough,
not enough, too many, more, less, same, different
• introduction to graphs: 2 column
• graphing - form of organising and representing information whenever it is necessary to compare numbers or record classifications
• object graphs
• introduction to graphs: 3 column (object)
• introduction to graphs: 4 column (object)

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