Mathematics
Measures of children’s proficiency in engaging with and understanding ideas about number, relationships, quantity and space.
Sub-domains and proficiencies
Definitions for each of the skills listed above can be found here.
Number -
Children’s proficiency in understanding and expressing ideas about quantity, counting, and numerical patterns.
- Pattern awareness/ matching
- Recognising and naming digits
- Linking number words, digits, and quantities
- Counting
- Subitising
- Number composition
- Place value
- Comparing numerical magnitude
- Numerical patterns
- Mathematical talk
Operations -
Children’s proficiency in grouping, sharing, and combining numbers.
- Additive reasoning
- Calculation
- Inverse operations
- Symbol knowledge
- Strategy selection
- Comparing numerical magnitude
- Numerical patterns
- Mathematical talk
Measurement -
Children’s proficiency in understanding, describing, and comparing physical attributes including size, weight, and capacity.
- Non-standard units
- Estimation
- Comparing physical magnitude
- Comparing quantities
- Pattern awareness/ matching
- Mathematical talk
Geometry and Spatial Thinking -
Children’s proficiency in understanding, describing, and comparing shapes, space, and spatial relationships.
- Shape recognition
- Shape decomposition
- 2D-3D relationships
- Spatial language
- Perspective taking
- Comparing physical magnitude
- Pattern awareness/ matching
- Mathematical talk