Subitising Numbers Numeracy Assessment: Foundation

Description
Support your students in developing early number sense with our Subitising Numbers Numeracy Assessment: Foundation! This targeted resource has been carefully designed to assess students’ ability to instantly recognise small collections, connect them with numerals, and apply subitising strategies with growing fluency. It provides valuable insight into students’ conceptual and perceptual understanding of number—key foundations for ongoing numeracy development.
This flexible assessment is ideal for whole-class screening, small group intervention, or one-on-one teacher conferencing. Students are guided through a range of visual tasks including matching groups to numerals, selecting the correct value from options, and representing their thinking with colour. Each task encourages rapid visual processing and supports a stronger understanding of numbers without the need to count by ones.
Subitising Numbers Assessment is accompanied by a detailed and editable Australian Curriculum-aligned rubric to support clear, consistent teacher judgement. A completed answer sheet is also included to save time during marking, planning and reporting. Whether you're working with beginning learners or monitoring growth over time, this assessment offers meaningful data in a simple, student-friendly format.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- ✅ Instantly recognise small groups of objects without counting
- ✅ Match subitised groups to numerals using visual reasoning
- ✅ Identify different visual structures of the same quantity (e.g. dot patterns, tens frames)
- ✅ Use colour coding to support matching and reinforce quantity recognition
- ✅ Demonstrate conceptual and perceptual subitising strategies
What’s Included:
- Student assessment worksheet featuring multiple subitising tasks
- Completed answer sheet to assist with quick, consistent marking
- Editable Australian Curriculum-aligned rubric for teacher judgement
- Clear visual layout designed for Foundation students
Materials Needed:
- Printed assessment sheets (paper or card)
- Pencils, coloured markers or crayons
- Optional: dot cards or tens frames for warm-up modelling
How to Use:
- Begin with a brief subitising warm-up using dice, dominoes or flash cards.
- Present the assessment and guide students through each section as needed.
- Students match subitised groups to numerals, write totals and colour to show understanding.
- Encourage students to explain their strategies where possible (e.g. “I saw 5 as 2 and 3”).
- Use the rubric to assess student progress and plan next steps.
Ideas for Classroom Use:
- 💡 Use as part of early term assessment to group students by subitising level
- 💡 Include in number sense intervention groups or numeracy rotations
- 💡 Display subitising visuals in the classroom to reinforce strategies daily
- 💡 Combine with dot card flash games or whole-class number talks
- 💡 Store completed assessments in student portfolios to track growth
Top Teacher Tips:
- 💛 Use a timer or brief exposure to prompt quick visual recognition
- 💛 Encourage students to describe how they saw the number using grouping language
- 💛 Scaffold reluctant learners with real counters or fingers, then remove support gradually
- 💛 Use the assessment tasks to spark rich mathematical discussions in small groups
Subitising Numbers Numeracy Assessment: Foundation is a simple but powerful tool for capturing the strategies students use to see, recognise and represent small collections—building confidence and fluency from the very start of their maths journey.
Available in a fully editable format.
Additional information
Number of Pages | 3 |
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File Format | zip |
Australian Curriculum Code | AC9MFN02 |
Australian Curriculum V9
F - 6
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