An essential component of Mathematics is the development of students’ ability to Work Mathematically. This includes the skills of Communicating, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Understanding and Fluency. 

Students’ ability to work mathematically is developed through the achievement of outcomes and working with content of the Mathematics K-6 Syllabus. Content is organised within the following content strands: 

This term in Mathematics, Kindergarten will be engaging with the following substrands:

• Whole Number
• 2D Space
• Patterns & Algebra
• Time
• Position

The focus for most of the term is on counting, representing and writing numbers.  

Students will also learn to follow an instruction to position an object or themselves and describe the relative position of an object or themselves. 

Other concepts covered in Term 1 include identifying, comparing and ordering the duration of events using the everyday language of time, creating and interpreting information in a data display, creating patterns and basic shapes.