Working Mathematically - 5 Investigate, generalise and reason about patterns in number, space and data, explaining and justifying conclusions reached.

Mathematics Student Outcome Statements:

Working Mathematically Level 1 - Talks about some of the ways numbers, shapes and time are used; with guidance, poses questions which can be answered by classifying, matching, ordering or counting objects; represents mathematical questions by acting out a story, or showing it with objects or pictures; and begins to show some self-correcting behaviour.
Number Level 1 - Reads, writes and says whole numbers, says how many things are, makes collections of a given size, and describes order; visualises number stories, partitioning small numbers and presenting them with materials, drawings, a calculator or in role play; mentally solves self-generated or orally presented questions from stories; and copies, continues and invents repeating and counting patterns.

The children were required to use the Paint It program on the class computer to make a repeating pattern. A blank oval and each child's name were placed on the screen before he/she began.