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Framework for teaching mathematics

Year 1 

Numbers and the number system

Yearly teaching programmes, shown below, are taken from the relevant section of the Framework for teaching mathematics: Reception to Year 6. The numbers, in brackets, are page references to the relevant supplement of examples in the Framework which you can download by clicking on an icon in the 'Downloads' box on the left of this page.

Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences (p.2-7)

• Know the number names and recite them in order to at least 20, from and back to zero. (p.2)
• Count reliably at least 20 objects. (p.2)
• Describe and extend number sequences:
  count on and back in ones from any small number, and in tens from and back to zero;
  count on in twos from zero, then one, and begin to recognise odd or even numbers to about 20 as 'every other number';
  count in steps of 5 from zero to 20 or more, then back again; begin to count on in steps of 3 from zero. (p.2,4,6)

Place value and ordering (p.8-15)

• Read and write numerals from 0 to at least 20. (p.8)
• Begin to know what each digit in a two-digit number represents. Partition a 'teens' number and begin to partition larger two-digit numbers into a multiple of 10 and ones (TU). (p.8)
• Understand and use the vocabulary of comparing and ordering numbers, including ordinal numbers to at least 20.
  Use the = sign to represent equality.
  Compare two familiar numbers, say which is more or less, and give a number which lies between them. (p.10)
• Within the range 0 to 30, say the number that is 1 or 10 more or less than any given number. (p.12)
• Order numbers to at least 20, and position them on a number track. (p.14)

Estimating (p.16-19)

• Understand and use the vocabulary of estimation.
  Give a sensible estimate of a number of objects that can be checked by counting (e.g. up to about 30 objects). (p.16)

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Key objectives are highlighted in bold type.