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WS02 - Sorting shapes and objects

Mathematics, Technologies: Digital Technologies, Foundation Year

By the end of Foundation Year, students make connections between number names, numerals and position in the sequence of numbers from zero to at least 20. They use subitising and counting strategies to quantify collections. Students compare the size of collections to at least 20. They partition and combine collections up to 10 in different ways, representing these with numbers. Students represent practical situations that involve quantifying, equal sharing, adding to and taking away from collections to at least 10. They copy and continue repeating patterns. 

 

Students identify the attributes of mass, capacity, length and duration, and use direct comparison strategies to compare objects and events. They sequence and connect familiar events to the time of day.  Students name, create and sort familiar shapes and give their reasoning. They describe the position and the location of themselves and objects in relation to other objects and people within a familiar space. 

 

Students collect, sort and compare data in response to questions in familiar contexts. 

Space

AC9MFSP01

sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons

Statistics

AC9MFST01

collect, sort and compare data represented by objects and images in response to given investigative questions that relate to familiar situations

Annotations

 

1. Sorts a collection of objects into rows based on a chosen variable of colour. 

 

2. Provides a reason for how the objects have been sorted. See also 5.

3. Recognises familiar shapes within objects.  

 

4. Sorts objects into groups based on their identified shapes.  

 

5. Provides a reason for how the objects have been sorted. See also 2. 

By the end of Foundation students identify familiar products, services and environments and develop familiarity with digital systems, using them for a purpose. They create, communicate and choose design ideas. Students follow steps and use materials and equipment to safely make a designed solution for a school-selected context. They show how to represent data using objects, pictures and symbols and identify examples of data that is owned by them.

By the end of Foundation students show familiarity with digital systems and use them for a purpose. They represent data using objects, pictures and symbols and identify examples of data that is owned by them. 

Knowledge and understanding | Data representation

AC9TDIFK02

represent data as objects, pictures and symbols

Annotations

 

1. Sorts similarly coloured objects into groups to represent yellow, orange, green, blue and red.

2. Sorts similarly shaped objects into groups to represent circles, triangles, rectangles and squares.