Skills in Early Maths
Understanding and Recalling
Junior and Senior Infants
First and Second
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Recall and understand terminology
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Recall and understand terminology and facts
Implementing
Junior and Senior Infants
First and Second
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Devise and use mental strategies and
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Devise and use mental strategies and procedures
procedures for carrying out mathematical tasks
for carrying out mathematical tasks
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Use appropriate manipulatives to carry out
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Use appropriate manipulatives to carry out
mathematical tasks and procedures
mathematical tasks and procedures
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Execute procedures efficiently
Reasoning
First and Second
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Classify objects into logical categories
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Make guesses and carry out experiments to test
Recognise and create sensory patterns
them
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Recognise and create mathematical patterns
Justify the processes or results of activities
and relationships
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Justify the processes and results of
mathematical activities
Junior and Senior Infants
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Classify objects into logical categories
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Integrating and Connecting
Junior and Senior Infants
First and Second
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Connect informally acquired mathematical
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Connect informally acquired mathematical ideas
ideas with formal mathematical ideas
with formal mathematical ideas
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Recognise mathematics in the environment
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Recognise mathematics in the environment
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Recognise the relationship between verbal,
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Recognise the relationship between verbal,
concrete, pictorial and symbolic modes of
concrete, pictorial and symbolic modes of
representing numbers
representing numbers
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Carry out mathematical activities that involve
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Carry out mathematical activities that involve
other areas of the curriculum
other areas of the curriculum
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Understand the mathematical ideas behind the
procedures he/she uses
Communicating and Expressing
Junior and Senior Infants
First and Second
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Discuss and explain mathematical activities
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Discuss and explain mathematical activities
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Listen to and discuss other children’s
mathematical descriptions and explanations
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Record the results of mathematical activities
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Discuss and record the results of mathematical
concretely and using diagrams, pictures and
activities
numbers
using diagrams, pictures and symbols
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Discuss problems presented concretely,
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Discuss problems presented pictorially or orally
pictorially or orally
Applying and Problem Solving
Junior and Senior Infants
First and Second
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Select appropriate materials and processes for
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Select appropriate materials and processes for
mathematical tasks
mathematical tasks and applications
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Select and apply appropriate strategies for
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Select and apply appropriate strategies for
completing a task or solving a problem
completing a task or solving a problem
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Recognise solutions to problems
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Recognise solutions to problems
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Apply concepts and processes in a variety of
contexts
Lower Order Skills
Higher Order Skills