Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and
improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating
simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces,
and measure.
These involve 2 different aspects
- Numbers
- Shapes, space and measure
There are many different ways of supporting these areas.
Objects
Here are some activities to do together when playing together
- Play object hide and seek
- Bury treasure then count how many you can find
- Compare 2 groups of objects
- Find the total number of both groups of objects
- Jigsaws
- Use language such as heavy, light, full, empty, under, inside
Other activities
Here are some activities to support mathematics
- Use shapes to create pictures
- Sing number songs
- Encourage tidy up time, making up a song or game
- Make patterns out of colours and shapes
Everyday routines
Here are some things to consider during everyday routines
- Look and name shapes you see around
- Count the stairs as you go up and down
- Make a books with children about what they have been doing use photos and words
- Write a shopping list for the children to use during an outing
Here are some activities Rainbow Robins may do to support Literacy, which you could try some of these at home.
- Role play – office, cafe
- Play-dough
- Painting
- Sand play
- Flour play
- Cornflour play
- Letter Bingo
- Drawing
- Making books
- Outdoor chalk
- Making stamps
- Reading stories
