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AC9MFN05

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Your child is learning to show adding and taking away using objects, fingers or a drawing.

  • Use cubes or counters to show 3 + 2
  • Draw a picture to represent a subtraction situation
Representing Addition and Subtraction →

One skill from the map, ages 4–6 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

“represent practical situations involving addition, subtraction and quantification with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies”
MathematicsFoundationNumber strand

Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — Mathematics ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site

Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

11 other candidate matches — 7 medium, 4 low

medium confidence

Representing numbers with objectsCounting & Cardinalityages 4–6 Addition and subtraction strategiesAddition & Subtractionages 6–7 One-to-one countingCounting & Cardinalityages 4–6 Mental addition and subtraction (age 6+)Addition & Subtractionages 6–7 Addition as combining or putting together twoAddition & Subtractionages 4–6 Spotting mathematical patternsMathematical Thinkingages 5–6 Number bondsAddition & Subtractionages 5–6

low confidence

One More Each TimeCounting & Cardinalityages 4–6 Reading +, −, and = symbolsAddition & Subtractionages 5–6 Finding efficient methodsMathematical Thinkingages 5–6 Subtraction as taking away or separatingAddition & Subtractionages 4–6

Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.

Nearby in the Number strand:
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