Learning Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity Learning • express wonder and interest in their environments • are curious and enthusiastic participants in their learning • use play to investigate, imagine and explore ideas • follow and extend their own interests with enthusiasm, energy and concentration • initiate and contribute to play experiences emerging from their own ideas • participate in a variety of rich and meaningful inquiry-based experiences • persevere and experience the satisfaction of achievement • persist even when they find a task difficult.

Learning Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity Learning • create and use representation to organise, record and communicate mathematical ideas and concepts • make predictions and generalisations about their daily activities, aspects of the natural world and environments, using patterns they generate or identify, and communicate these using mathematical language and symbols • explore their environment • manipulate objects and experiment with cause and effect, trial and error, and motion • contribute constructively to mathematical discussions and arguments • use reflective thinking to consider why things happen and what can be learnt from these experiences.