Number Sense and Counting · Number and Algebra

Ordering and Comparing

Investigating the relative size of numbers and using language to describe more or less.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we prove that one group has more items than another group?
  2. 2What happens to the order of numbers if we add one more item to a set?
  3. 3When is it useful to put numbers in a specific sequence?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9MFN03
Year: Foundation
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: Number Sense and Counting
Period: Number and Algebra

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