Beat the Clock
Children use everyday language to talk about time, to compare quantities and to solve problems
Children use everyday language to talk about time, to compare quantities and to solve problems
Children use everyday language to talk about size, to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems
Children explore characteristics of shapes, using 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.
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.