Counting

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    Baskets

    Age
    3 to 5

    This activity encourages children to practise their sharing and counting skills by putting small objects into some baskets.

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    The Voting Station

    Age
    3 to 5

    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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    Beat the Clock

    Age
    3 to 5

    Children use everyday language to talk about time, to compare quantities and to solve problems

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    How Long Are You?

    Age
    3 to 5

    Children use everyday language to talk about size, to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems

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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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    Mapping

    Age
    3 to 5

    In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.

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    Obstacle Course

    Age
    3 to 5

    As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their movement themselves and create their own course.

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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.

  • Numbers and Notation - Ambiguities and Confusions
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    Numbers and Notation - Ambiguities and Confusions

    While musing about the difficulties children face in comprehending number structure, notation, etc., it occured to the author that there is a vast array of occasions when numbers and signs are used in anomalous ways; often these are at the earliest stages, when they must be enormously confusing. However, they also frequently happen in adult situations.

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    An Investigation Based on Score

    Class 2YP from Madras College was inspired by the problem in NRICH to work out in how many ways the number 1999 could be expressed as the sum of 3 odd numbers, and this is their solution.

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