Strand: Number and Algebra Sub strand: Patterns and Algebra

Declarative Knowledge Foundation Year Sequences and counting patterns. Familiar objects Colours, Shapes, Sizes. Procedural Knowledge Sort and classify objects. . Copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings. Observe natural patterns in the world. Procedural Investigate and describe number patterns. Use place-value patterns to generalise the number sentence and predict the next number. Procedural Knowledge Identify missing elements in patterns. Represent patterns on a number line. Solve number sentence problems. Write a word problem to represent a number sentence. Procedural Knowledge Describe, continue and create number patterns. Describe and write rules for number patterns.

Declarative Year 1 Counting numbers in sequences. Place-value patterns. Understand skip counting. Declarative Knowledge Year 2 Understand number sentences. Skip counting. Addition and subtraction. Represent a word problem as a number sentence. Declarative Knowledge Year 3 Connecting number representations with number sequences. Understand number patterns. The rules for number patterns. Addition and Subtraction. Declarative Knowledge Making connections between representations of numbers. Understand number patterns and number sentences. Addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division, with no remainder. Partitioning to find unknown qualities in number sentences. Declarative Knowledge Making connections between representations of numbers. Understand value of fractions, decimals and whole numbers. Understand equivalent number sentences. Multiplication and division.

Procedural Knowledge Explore and describe number patterns resulting from multiplication. Solve word problems using number sentences. Use equivalent number sentences involving addition and subtraction to find unknown quantities. Write a word problem from given number sentence. Procedural Knowledge Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction. Using a number line or diagram to create patterns involving fractions and decimals. Use equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division to find unknown quantities. Procedural Knowledge Continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Use of brackets and order of operations to write number sentences Procedural Knowledge Extend and apply the laws and properties of arithmetic. Create algebraic expressions and evaluate them. Identifying order of operations in contextualised problems.

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Year 5

Declarative Knowledge Year 6 Understand rules used to create sequences. Brackets and order of operations used in writing number sentences Declarative Knowledge Year 7 Concept of variables as a way of representing numbers using letters. Laws and properties of arithmetic. Algebraic terms and expressions.