represent practical situations involving addition, subtraction and quantification with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies

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 role-play and materials to represent mathematical relationships in stories; for example, “Eight kangaroos were drinking at the river and \(3\) hopped away”; drawing a picture and using materials to represent the situation, discussing, and recording the result of the action with a numeral
• role playing or actively engaging in situations that involve quantifying or comparing collections of items or simple money transactions; for example, “Do we have enough scissors for our group so that each person has their own pair?”; role-playing using \(\$1\) coins to pay for items in a shop where items are priced in whole dollars
• representing situations expressed in First Nations Australians’ stories, such as “Tiddalick, the greedy frog”, that describe additive situations and their connections to Country/Place