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Barrier games
Barrier games build on children's natural desire to combine block play with small world items.
Early years reasoning
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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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Seesaw shenanigans
Age
3 to 7
Challenge level
A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?
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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
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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 importance of shape and space in the early years
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford discusses children's early spatial thinking and how this predicts their mathematical understanding and achievement.
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Maths story time
This story provides an engaging context for children to share out the treasure fairly among the characters.
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Water, water ...
This task provides a real-life context for children to compare capacities in order to choose the biggest container for their lemonade.
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The box game
In this game, children will use their addition and subtraction skills to keep track of the number of toys hidden inside a box when toys are added in or taken out.