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Asking Prompting Questions

Last updated 29 April 2025

Throughout the day, there are numerous opportunities to engage children in discussions about numeracy concepts and skills. By using a variety of prompts and questions, you can encourage children to share their ideas, strategies, and problem-solving approaches.

Here are examples of questions to facilitate discussions about different numeracy concepts and skills:

Numeracy Concept or Skill

Suggested questions

Relationships and patterns

  • How can/did you sort these objects?

  • Why did you sort the objects this way?

  • How are they alike? How are they different?

  • What comes after/before this? How do you know?

  • What pattern did you create? Tell me about your pattern.

Counting and number sense

  • How many are there?

  • What comes before/after 6?

  • What are the missing numbers?

  • How many do we have?

  • Which has more? How many more?

Shapes and spatial concepts

  • Can you make that shape?

  • How is this shape different from that?

  • What shape can you make with these?