ASPECTS OF NUMERACY FOCUS AREA 2 PATTERNING GENERALISATIONS ALGEBRAIC REASONING prior to school Begins to recognise patterns and relationships and the connections between them Begins to sort, categorise, order and compare collections and events and attributes of objects and materials, in their social and natural world EARLY STAGE 1 Sorts and classifies objects into groups Recognises, copies, continues, creates and describes repeating patterns of objects and drawings Print