Mathematics

Involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.

Ideas to support learning at home:

• Sing number rhymes
• Count out everyday objects such as fish fingers at teatime.
• Ask children to point out numbers on doors.
• Ask children to set the table for four people.
• Say which has more or less in a group of objects such as apples and pears.
• Encourage children to share out a packet of sweets between two people.
• Play hopscotch or skittles.
• Talk about shapes in the environment.
• Recognise and recreate patterns such as a tower of lego or a pattern on a bedspread.
• Develop positional language by placing a teddy on, under, behind, beside a chair and asking them to tell you where it is.
• When cooking encourage children to measure out ingredients.