Can you build this?
Children explore characteristics of shapes and use both everyday and mathematical language to describe them, talk about positions and solve problems
Children explore characteristics of shapes and use both everyday and mathematical language to describe them, talk about positions and solve problems
In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.
As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their movement themselves and create their own course.
Barrier games build on children's natural desire to combine block play with small world items.
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford discusses children's early spatial thinking and how this predicts their mathematical understanding and achievement.