Mathematics – Stage 1 – Year B – Unit 24

Smaller numbers can be found hiding in bigger numbers – develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of place value and how smaller numbers can be found hiding in bigger numbers.

Mathematics K-2 Syllabus © 2021 NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales.

In this unit students will learn to:

  • visualise, estimate, and investigate the structure of groups of 10
  • sort, create, recognise, and represent numbers and collections up to 100 in different ways
  • ask questions, represent ideas, and record thinking using objects and drawings.

Syllabus focus and content group

Representing whole numbers A – MAO-WM-01, MA1-RWN-01, MA1-RWN-02
  • Use counting sequences of ones with two-digit numbers and beyond
  • Represent numbers on a line
  • Represent the structure of groups of ten in whole numbers
  • Use counting sequences of ones and tens flexibly
  • Form, regroup, and rename three-digit numbers
Combining and separating quantities A – MAO-WM-01, MA1-CSQ-01
  • Use advanced count-by-one strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
  • Recognise and recall number bonds up to ten
  • Use flexible strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
  • Represent equality
Combining and separating quantities B– MAO-WM-01, MA1-CSQ-01
  • Represent and reason about additive relations
  • Form multiples of ten when adding and subtracting two-digit numbers
  • Use knowledge of equality to solve related problems

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