Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy.

In order to develop mathematical skills such as number recognition, counting, awareness of shape and space, we use a variety of activities, including games, number songs, cookery, and role-play shops.

We encourage the use of positional and size language for example ‘opposite’ and ‘next to’ and ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’ and reinforce this with practical activities. These activities are also used to introduce simple adding and subtracting using language such as ‘more’ and ‘less’ to compare numbers.