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Concept List

This list is not exhaustive and it is understood that there are grades of difficulty within each concept. I suggest you begin with a few items of maths tackle, making sure you include at least twenty of the same item. Work down the list of concepts. Thinking of one concept at a time, see if you could use your maths tackle to illustrate or teach that concept.

Pre-Number Concepts

PRE-NUMBER

• Auditory Discrimination
• Auditory Memory
• Conservation of Number
• Counting by Ones
• Fine Motor Skills
• Hand/Eye Coordination
• Mental Imagery
• One to One Correspondence
• Ordering
• Pattern & Repetition
• Sorting & Classifying
• Visual Copying
• Visual Discrimination
• Visual Memory
• Vocabulary
• Mathematics Concepts

NUMBER/NUMERATION

• Analysing Numbers
• Arrays
• Contracting Numbers
• Comparing Numbers
• Converting Concrete into Abstract
• Counting Forwards and Backwards
• Estimation
• Expanding Numbers
• Factors
• Index Notation / Indices
• Largest and Smallest Numbers from Digits
• Negative Numbers
• Number Facts
• Number Lines
• Number Sentences
• Odd and Even Numbers
• Ordering Numbers
• Place Value
• Prime and Composite Numbers
• Reading Numbers
• Rounding Numbers
• Sequences
• Square Numbers
• Tests of Divisibility
• Triangular Numbers
• Unnecessary Zeros
• Writing Numbers
• Zero as a Place Holder

OPERATIONS

• Addition
• Division
• Multiplication
• Subtraction

PROBLEM-SOLVING

• Numerous concepts

RATIONAL NUMBERS

• Fractions
• Decimals
• Percentages
• Ratio

MEASUREMENT

• Area
• Capacity
• Length
• Mass
• Money
• Perimeter
• Temperature
• Time
• Volume

SHAPES / GEOMETRY

• Angles
• Plane Shapes
• Solid Shapes
• Symmetry - mirror
• Symmetry - rotational

STATISTICS / GRAPHS / DATA

• Frequency Polygons
• Line Graphs
• Picture Graphs
• Probability
• Tallying
• Other Concepts

LANGUAGE

• Giving Directions
• Listening
• Speaking
• Writing - Various genre

MENTAL IMAGERY

MEMORY

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