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.
Using the spring scale in this activity provides an engaging context in which children can explore and discuss the weight of different objects.
In this task, children are encouraged to spot pairs of socks and to order the socks by size and length on the washing line.
In this task, children will learn different ways of representing the same number.
In the pirate pound shop, children can practise their counting skills by choosing ten items to spend their ten pounds on.
In this activity, the rhyme 'Ten Green Bottles' is used to encourage children to count backwards to work out how many bottles are left.
This dice activity encourages children to relate the number on the dice to the number of teddies they need to choose.
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford outlines what we mean by subitising and how we can teach it.
