recognise, continue and create pattern sequences, with numbers, symbols, shapes and objects, formed by skip counting, initially by twos, fives and tens

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• using number charts, songs, rhymes and stories to establish skip counting sequences of twos, fives and tens
• using shapes and objects to represent a growing pattern formed by skip counting; for example, using blocks or beads to represent the growing patterns \(2, 4, 6, 8, 10\) … and \(5, 10, 15, 20\) …
• recognising the patterns in sequences formed by skip counting; for example, that skip counting in fives starting from zero always results in either a \(5\) or zero as the final digit