Tunisia Primary School Syllabus - Mathematics

The Tunisian primary school mathematics curriculum appears to be based on the Cambridge Primary Mathematics Curriculum Framework. The following outlines the learning objectives for Year 1 (Stage 1):

Thinking and Working Mathematically:

  • Specialising
  • Generalising
  • Conjecturing
  • Convincing
  • Characterising
  • Classifying
  • Critiquing
  • Improving

Number:

  • Counting and Sequences:
      • Count objects from 0 to 20, recognizing conservation of number and one-to-one correspondence.
      • Recognize the number of objects presented in familiar patterns up to 10, without counting.
      • Estimate the number of objects or people (up to 20), and check by counting.
      • Count on in ones, twos, or tens, and count back in ones and tens, starting from any number (from 0 to 20).
      • Understand even and odd numbers as 'every other number' when counting (from 0 to 20).
      • Use familiar language to describe sequences of objects.
  • Integers and Powers:
      • Recite, read, and write number names and whole numbers (from 0 to 20).
      • Understand addition as:
          • Counting on
          • Combining two sets
      • Understand subtraction as:
          • Counting back
          • Take away
          • Difference
      • Recognize complements of 10.
      • Estimate, add and subtract whole numbers (where the answer is from 0 to 20).
      • Know doubles up to double 10.
  • Money:
      • Recognize money used in local currency.
  • Place Value, Ordering, and Rounding:
      • Understand that zero represents none of something.
      • Compose, decompose, and regroup numbers from 10 to 20.
      • Understand the relative size of quantities to compare and order numbers from 0 to 20.
      • Recognize and use ordinal numbers from 1st to 10th.
  • Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratio, and Proportion:
      • Understand that an object or shape can be split into two equal parts or two unequal parts.
      • Understand that a half can describe one of two equal parts of a quantity or set of objects.
      • Understand that a half can act as an operator (whole number answers).
      • Understand and visualize that halves can be combined to make wholes.

Geometry and Measure:

  • Time:
      • Use familiar language to describe units of time.
      • Know the days of the week and the months of the year.
      • Recognize time to the hour and half hour.
  • Geometrical Reasoning, Shapes, and Measurements:
      • Identify, describe, and sort 2D shapes by their characteristics or properties, including reference to the number of sides and whether the sides are curved or straight.
      • Use familiar language to describe length, including long, longer, longest, thin, thinner, thinnest, short, shorter, shortest, tall, taller, and tallest.
      • Identify, describe, and sort 3D shapes by their properties, including reference to the number of faces, edges and whether faces are flat or curved.
      • Use familiar language to describe mass, including heavy, light, less, and more.
      • Use familiar language to describe capacity, including full, empty, less, and more.
      • Differentiate between 2D and 3D shapes.
      • Identify when a shape looks identical as it rotates.
      • Explore instruments that have numbered scales and select the most appropriate instrument to measure length, mass, capacity, and temperature.
  • Position and Transformation:
      • Use familiar language to describe position and direction.

Statistics and Probability:

  • Statistics:
      • Answer non-statistical questions (categorical data).
      • Record, organize, and represent categorical data using:
          • Practical resources and drawings
          • Lists and tables
          • Venn and Carroll diagrams
          • Block graphs and pictograms.
      • Describe data, using familiar language including reference to more, less, most, or least to answer non-statistical questions and discuss conclusions.

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