Mathematics
Mathematics
- Take every opportunity to practise counting with your child, e.g. counting stairs, apples in the fruit bowl, sweets and cars you see going past.
- Recognise numbers in the environment – the number 2 bus, the house number you live at, your child’s age.
- Encourage your child to sort and group things by colour, shape or size, e.g. socks, clothes, buttons etc.
- Let your child help you to set the table and count out the correct number of knives, forks and spoons needed.
- Look at and talk about the colour and shape of things.
- Talk about the size of things e.g. long, short, tall, longer, shorter, taller. Pass me the biggest box, the longest pencil…
- Sing number songs like ‘Five Little Ducks’ and ‘Ten Green Bottles’. Can they recite the numbers to ten in order, forwards and backwards?
- Discuss the position of things e.g. under, over, above, below, in front, behind, next to, between.
- Make a pretend shop and let your child use real coins to ‘buy’ items.
- Let your child help with the cooking. This could involve sharing, talking about heavy and light and measuring ingredients.
