Distinguish between quantities, recognising that a group of objects is more than one.
Gain awareness of one-to-one correspondence through categorising belongings, starting with 'mine' or 'Mummy's'.
Awareness of number during play, such as the number words used and when and why they use them.
How children notice or choose a larger quantity.
Use number words in meaningful contexts, for example, "Here's your other mitten. Now we have two".
Talk to young children about 'lots' and 'few' as they play.
Talk about young children's choices and, where appropriate, demonstrate how counting helps us to find out how many.
Give opportunities for children to practise one-to-one correspondence in real-life situations.
Talk about the maths in everyday situations, for example, doing up a coat, one hole for each button.
Tell parents about all the ways children learn about numbers in your setting. Have interpreter support or translated materials to support children and families learning English as an additional language.
Provide varied opportunities to explore 'lots' and 'few' in play.
Equip the role-play area with things that can be sorted in different ways.
Provide collections of objects that can be sorted and matched in various ways.
Provide resources that support children in making one-to-one correspondences, for example, giving each dolly a cup.
Calculating
Are learning to classify by organising and arranging toys with increasing intent.
Categorise objects according to their properties.
Occasions when young children gather things together, such as collecting several books or lining up cars.
Children's interest in helping when an adult sorts the fruit at snack time, for example, putting all the apples together.
Foster children's ability to classify and compare amounts.
Use 'tidy up time' to promote logic and reasoning about where things fit in or are kept.
Putting the blocks away - In a nursery school, a small group of children work independently, together, and with the support of the practitioner to tidy away the resources.
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Encourage children, when helping with domestic tasks, to put all the pieces of apple on one dish and all the pieces of celery on another for snacks.
Use pictures or shapes of objects to indicate where things are kept and encourage children to work out where things belong.
Shape, Space and Measures
Attempt, sometimes successfully, to fit shapes into spaces on inset boards or jigsaw puzzles.
Use blocks to create their own simple structures and arrangements.
Enjoy filling and emptying containers.
Children's strategies as they select and fit shapes in a puzzle or balance blocks on one another.
Children's interest in and familiarity with the shapes of everyday objects.
Talk to children, as they play with water or sand, to encourage them to think about when something is full, empty or holds more.
Help young children to create different arrangements in the layout of road and rail tracks.
Highlight patterns in daily activities and routines.
Help children to touch, see and feel shape through art, music and dance.
Encourage children to create their own patterns in art, music and dance.
Time to cook - In a childminder's home, the childminder supports the child in his play and learning. [transcript]
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Provide different sizes and shapes of containers in water play, so that children can experiment with quantities and measures.
Offer a range of puzzles with large pieces and knobs or handles to support success in fitting shapes into spaces.
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