Maths · Foundation – Level 6

Maths that starts with counters, not with tears.

Every strand of the Australian Curriculum for primary school, taught the way children actually learn: see it, picture it, then write it as numbers. Ziado adapts each round to your child's real skills.

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A Ziado maths round: ten-frames showing 8 plus 5, an equation, a number keypad and Numi cheering

What's covered

All six strands, Foundation to Level 6.

Built on Australian Curriculum F–10 Mathematics v2.0. Each strand is a world in your child's galaxy.

Number

Counting & subitising, tens and ones, adding & subtracting within 20, multiplication facts, fractions and decimals.

Algebra

Patterns, skip counting, missing-number puzzles, and the early rules that make maths make sense.

Measurement

Length, mass, capacity, time and money - from comparing directly to using formal units.

Space

Shapes, symmetry, position and movement, maps and coordinates - the Shapes & Space world.

Statistics

Collecting, sorting and reading data - picture graphs, column graphs, and asking good questions of them.

Probability

Likely, unlikely, certain, impossible - then describing and comparing chance with numbers.

How it teaches

See it. Picture it. Then write it.

Ziado follows the Concrete → Representational → Abstract approach used in effective classrooms.

1 · Concrete

Counters & ten-frames

Ideas begin as things you can count and move - dots in a ten-frame, groups of counters.

2 · Representational

Number lines & arrays

The same idea becomes a picture - hops on a number line, rows in an array, parts of a whole.

8+5

3 · Abstract

Equations

Only once the idea is solid does it become bare symbols - and by then, symbols feel easy.

Where would your child start in maths?

Take the free adaptive check - about 10 minutes, no account needed.

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Worried about a specific hurdle? Our parent guides cover falling behind, times tables and maths anxiety.