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Red level - Year 1
Whole Numbers
- revision of numbers 1 to 10
- counting up to 20
- groups of 1 to 10 objects
- patterns
- ordinal numbers - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
- introduction to zero as a number
- terminology: between, under, behind, left and right
Addition
- introduction to addition
- number chart of 1 to 10
- counting and identifying numbers to 10
- introduction of the + sign and the word "plus"
- addition of numbers where the sum is no more than 20 (horizontal and vertical format)
Subtraction
- introduction to subtraction
- introduction to the = sign
- introduction of the - sign
- subtracting 1 to 10 from numbers up to 10 (horizontal format)
- introduction of the vertical format
- using addition to check a subtraction
Multiplication,/
- introduction to multiplication
- recognising and creating groups
- grouping items (1-10)
- counting items within groups (1 to 10 per group)
- counting groups (up to 10 groups)
- making different groups from one number
Fractions
- commences at Purple level
Time and Money
- Review and extension of Blue level
- sequence of events (Relational - between, in front, behind, beside, side by side, up, down, under, over, on top, near)
- sequence of events (Positional - 1st to 31st , first,…..,thirty-first)
- days of the week and weekend
- durations: shorter, longer, shortest, longest, faster, slower, fastest, slowest
- associated language: yesterday, today, tomorrow
- money situations
- shopping when no change given
Measurement
- concept of mass: heavy, light, same, heavier, lighter
- concept of length: comparison of 2 and more objects (tall/short/long, taller/shorter/longer, tallest/shortest/longest, high/low, higher/lower, highest/lowest)
- concept of length: comparison of 2 and more objects (wide/narrow, wider/narrower, etc)
- concept of area: elementary introduction to covering a surface
- concept of volume: elementary introduction to volume (full/empty, holds more than, holds less than, holds as much as, nearly full/empty)
- concept of volume: elementary introduction to volume (holds most/holds least)
Space
- identify and describe positions
- positional: right/left; in/out; outside/inside; etc
- relational: same/different; big/little; etc
- operational: the same; sort; fit; join together; match; cover
- geometric: shape; flat; round/curved; etc
- compare and classify plane shapes: according to one attribute
- identify and describe 3-D shapes (solids)
- geometric: box shapes; ball shapes; can shapes
- compare and classify according to one attribute
- line: concept of the line and the use of the word "line"
- symmetry: exploration through plane shapes
Chance and data
- one-to-one correspondence: physical pairing of objects
- language: matches, does not match, each, none, all, enough, not enough, too many, more, less, same, different
- introduction to graphs: 2 column
- graphing - form of organising and representing information whenever it is necessary to compare numbers or record classifications
- object graphs
- introduction to graphs: 3 column (object)
- introduction to graphs: 4 columns (object)
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