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Connecting Representations
Move between real-world situations, drawings, and number sentences, explaining how each representation connects to the others (quantitative reasoning)
Suggested ages 6–7
Learning journey
Your child is developing mathematical reasoning skills — learning to plan approaches to problems, explain their thinking clearly, spot patterns, and connect real-world situations to mathematical solutions.
Evidence of understanding
- Write a number sentence (e.g. 14 + 5 = 19) to match a word problem and explain the connection
- Draw a bar model or part-whole diagram to represent a problem, then solve using the diagram
- Translate between a concrete model and a symbolic equation, describing what each number represents
Assessment prompt
When Connecting Representations solves a word problem, can they draw a diagram or write a number sentence to show their thinking — and then explain how the picture and the numbers match the real situation?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.