What is the focus of the numeracy progression?
Numeracy development influences student success in many areas of learning at school. The progression can be used to support students to successfully engage with the numeracy demands of the Foundation to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The National Numeracy …
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How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Numeracy skills are explicit teaching in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Students need opportunities to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and that numerate people apply general mathematical skills …
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AdS4
Counting on (by ones) treats a number word as a completed count when solving problems (‘I have 7 apples. I want 10. How many more do I need?’ Treats the 7 as a completed count) uses a strategy of count-up-from to calculate addition (to find 6 + 3, …
AdS4 | Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
AdS5
Counting back (by ones) uses count-down-from for subtraction tasks (9 – 3 = ?, 9 ... 8, 7, 6. It equals 6) uses count-down-to to calculate (9 take away something equals 6, responds 9 ... 8, 7, 6 ... It's 3) finds the difference between two numbers …
AdS5 | Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
MeT2
Telling time uses the appropriate time unit to describe the duration of events (uses minutes to describe time taken to clean teeth whereas uses hours to describe the duration of a long-distance car trip) reads time on analogue clocks to the hour, …
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QuN12
Understanding place value (directed numbers) orders negative numbers (recognises that −10 °C is colder than −2.5 °C) Representing place value recognises, reads and interprets very large and very small numbers expresses numbers as powers of 10 …
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NPA4
Continuing number patterns continues patterns where the difference between each term is the same number (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 …) describes rules for continuing patterns where the difference between each term is the same number (to find the next number …
NPA4 | Number patterns and algebraic thinking | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources