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Obstacle Course
As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their movement themselves and create their own course.
Counting
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Mapping
In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.
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Counting Collections in the Early Years
In this article for practitioners, Cath Gripton and Deliah Pawluch explore the 'counting collections' approach, which encourages children to spend time playing and experimenting with counting.
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EYFS Thinking About: Sunflower Numbers
Here are some examples of children's thinking prompted by drawings of numbered sunflowers on an outside wall.
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How long are you?
Children use everyday language to talk about size, to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems
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Beat the Clock
Children use everyday language to talk about time, to compare quantities and to solve problems
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How Many?
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Have a look at these photos of different fruit. How many do you see? How did you count?
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Truth or Lie
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Take a look at the video of this trick. Can you perform it yourself? Why is this maths and not magic?
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Unexpected Ordering
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Watch the video of Fran re-ordering these number cards. What do you notice? Try it for yourself. What happens?
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The Voting Station
This task encourages children to count and compare numbers when using 'voting bricks' to vote for a book at story time.