Math Games

Chance
• Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as 'will happen', 'won't happen' or 'might happen'
- justifying that some events are certain or impossible

Data representation and interpretation
• Choose simple questions and gather responses and make simple inferences
- determining which questions will gather appropriate responses for a simple investigation
• Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the displays
- understanding one-to-one correspondence
- describing displays by identifying categories with the greatest or least number of objects

Number and place value
• Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero
- using the popular Korean counting game (sam-yuk-gu) for skip counting
- developing fluency with forwards and backwards counting in meaningful contexts such as circle games
• Recognise, model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100. Locate these numbers on a number line
- modelling numbers with a range of material and images
- identifying numbers that are represented on a number line and placing numbers on a prepared number line
• Count collections to 100 by partitioning numbers using place value
- understanding partitioning of numbers and the importance of grouping in tens
- understanding two-digit numbers as comprised of tens and ones/units
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including counting on, partitioning and rearranging parts
- developing a range of mental strategies for addition and subtraction problems

Fractions and decimals
• Recognise and describe one-half as one of two equal parts of a whole.
- developing a range of mental strategies for addition and subtraction problems
- splitting an object into two equal pieces and describing how the pieces are equal

Money and financial mathematics
• Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value
- showing that coins are different in other countries by comparing Asian coins to Australian coins
- understanding that the value of Australian coins is not related to size
- describing the features of coins that make it possible to identify them

Patterns and algebra
• Investigate and describe number patterns formed by skip-counting and patterns with objects
- using place-value patterns beyond the teens to generalise the number sequence and predict the next number
- investigating patterns in the number system, such as the occurrence of a particular digit in the numbers to 100

Using units of measurement
• Measure and compare the lengths and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units
- understanding that in order to compare objects, the unit of measurement must be the same size
• Tell time to the half-hour
- reading time on analogue and digital clocks and observing the characteristics of half-hour times
• Describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours
- describing the duration of familiar situations such as 'how long is it until we next come to school?'

Shape
• Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features
- focusing on geometric features and describing shapes and objects using everyday words such as 'corners', 'edges' and 'faces'

Location and transformation
• Give and follow directions to familiar locations
- understanding that people need to give and follow directions to and from a place, and that this involves turns, direction and distance
- understanding the meaning and importance of words such as 'clockwise', 'anticlockwise', 'forward' and 'under' when giving and following directions
- interpreting and following directions around familiar locations