SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING IN MATHEMATICS
- Counting forwards and backwards
- Counting forwards and backwards from numbers other than 1
- Counting using ordinal numbers 1st to 30th
- Identifying numbers before and after E.g. What number comes after/before 9?
- Board games, dice games, number games
- Using everyday mathematical language - numbers, forward, backward, in front, behind, beside, under, on top, counting, patterns, repeating, continuing, whole objects and halves
- Identifying numbers in the environment
- Ensure correct formation of numbers 1-10
- Matching quantities to numbers
- Ensuring that children are correctly articulating the teen number names
- Teen numbers are made up of one group of ten and some more eg 11 is one group of ten and one more
- Review the four basic shapes and their features - circle, square, triangle, rectangle
- Use the language of time - yesterday, today, tomorrow, days of the week, months of the year, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring