# Make a collection easy to count

**Year 1 Mathematics · Term 1 Weeks 7–8 · Days 31–40 · v0.1.0 · 1 October 2026.** An unpiloted teaching draft; computer checks are recorded in the held review evidence and independent/local/human/public-site review remains open. Ten optional 25-minute offers contribute to a broader school program. Smaller access/entry ranges are useful partial work, not completion through 120.

## Start today

Take twelve large marks or safe existing materials. Ask a child to organise them so none is counted twice. Verify a pair, count the groups as 2,4,6,8,10,12 and ask what the final number names. The child may direct an adult to move/mark; record who made the mathematical choices. No printer, device, bought kit, fine motor performance, sound or homework is required.

1. Read the [teacher start](TEACHER-GUIDE.md) or [family offers](HOME-OFFERS.md).
2. Pick one [daily start](LESSONS.md) and one of its three meaningful choices. All choices are open to any child.
3. Use [learner choices](LEARNER-GUIDE.md), a chosen [ordinary print aid](PRINT-SELECTION.md), or its [exact text alternative](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md).
4. Refer to [twenty worked contexts](WORKED-CONTEXTS.md) for teaching, not as first-response answers. Staff use the [fresh preparation](teacher/CHECK-PREPARATION.md), keeping offline native checks/key separate.

The child organises/counts a collection and recognises, continues and creates increasing skip-count sequences, initially 2/5/10. An increasing quantity is not an ABAB repeating pattern. A numeral prediction, a supplied group model and an actual child grouping are different evidence. [Curriculum scope](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md) and [standalone rights/source record](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md) name the exact partial N03/A01 contribution and wider Year 1 requirements.

Weeks 5–6 counted fixed tens through 120. Here children choose/audit grouping and create sequences; Weeks 9–10 and later operation/measurement/space/data work remain future planning. This leaf neither changes that map nor proves whole-year/state/cohort attainment, efficacy or local approval.

Original teaching prose, fictional scenarios and diagrams © NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd 2026, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Credit SubjectNest by NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd, link source/licence and note changes. Curriculum and Queensland source expression retain separate rights. Computer review is not a human trial.