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Mapping
In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.
Counting
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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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The voting station
This task encourages children to count and compare numbers when using 'voting bricks' to vote for a book at story time.
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Baskets
This activity encourages children to practise their sharing and counting skills by putting small objects into some baskets.
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Hidden jewels
In this 'hide and reveal' game, children are encouraged to say the number of gems without counting them.
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The value of two
Ruth Trundley outlines her doctoral research and concludes that development of an understanding of cardinality is a crucial element of counting that can be overlooked.
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Binomial coefficients
An introduction to the binomial coefficient, and exploration of some of the formulae it satisfies.