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MathematicsCounting & CardinalityAges 5–7

Counting in 2s

Your child can count in twos, fives and tens — 2, 4, 6, 8 — past 20. This helps them count things in groups instead of one by one.

In curriculum terms

Count in multiples of 2, 5, and 10 (skip counting)

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If your child is counting socks being paired up, can they skip-count in twos — 2, 4, 6, 8 — all the way to 20? Can they also count up in fives when counting coins, or in tens on a number line?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Rote counting to 100ages 5–6Skip counting in 2s, 5s, 10s requires fluent rote counting by ones first
Counting in 2sthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Counting forwards and backwardsages 6–7Skip counting in 3s builds on the concept of skip counting already established in 2s, 5s, and 10s
Counting forwards and backwardsages 6–7Counting in tens from any number builds on skip counting in tens from 0
Times tablesages 6–7Times tables for 2, 5, 10 build on skip counting in 2s, 5s, 10s
Counting Within 1,000ages 7–8Counting to 1000 by 5s/10s/100s extends skip counting from Year 2
Odd or Evenages 7–8Odd/even requires counting by 2s (skip counting)
Skip Counting (4s, 8s, 50s, 100s)ages 7–8Counting in 4s and 8s extends prior skip counting in 2s, 5s, 10s

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 1 NSW · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9MFN03medium confidenceFoundation · Number

quantify and compare collections to at least 20 using counting and explain or demonstrate reasoning

AC9M1A01low confidenceYear 1 · Algebra

recognise, continue and create pattern sequences, with numbers, symbols, shapes and objects, formed by skip counting, initially by twos, fives and tens

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

MAE-RWN-02medium confidenceMathematics K-10 · Early Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2MFN03medium confidenceMathematics · Foundation · Number strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Counting objects to 20ages 5–6 Rote counting to 100ages 5–6 Two written numerals between 1 and 10ages 5–6 Comparing groups: more or fewerages 4–6

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