This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of combining, separating, comparing and forming groups with quantities. Students are provided opportunities to:
combine and separate quantities to identify the smaller parts that are found within a total quantity
compare quantities and identify the difference between quantities or equal groups
distribute items from a collection into smaller groups and recognise whether the groups are equal or not.
Before engaging in these teaching and learning activities, students would benefit from prior experience with:
counting to at least 10 with one-to-one correspondence
recognising numerals, visual representations and words for quantities up to 10
recognising that the last number stated in a count represents the total of the count.