Mathematics: Monday 11 May to Friday 15 May

1) Number work across the week. Number formation- focus on the ones that your child struggles to do. Recognising the number and matching it with the correct quantity. (Depending on

your child/children you could look at numbers from 1-5, 1-10 or 1-20). Counting forwards and backwards from 0-20. Saying what is one more or less than a given number.

2) A list of creative ideas to support number work.

Number hunt: Hide numbers around the indoor and outdoor area, go and find them or hide them and when they spot them they have to write it down.

When tidying their toys away… how many did we put away? How many can we fit in the toy box?

Role play shops (ice cream, toy shop, food shop etc) use 1ps. Everything is 20p or under. Can they recognise the number on the price tag? Can they count out the number of coins they need to pay for the product? If they buy two things, can they use the language of addition to do this?

Pack a suitcase: can your child pack a suitcase for their teddy bears who are going on a holiday? Use objects from around the house, can they put a different amount of things in each bag or suitcase?

Sing songs: 10 in the bed, 10 green bottles, 5 little men in a flying saucer etc.

4) Space, shape and measurement- measuring short times in simple ways.

Can your child use a timer on a device to measure short times?

Activity 1: You could have an egg and spoon race, running race, wheel barrow race, three legged race etc. Why not set a challenge? For example: let’s see how long it takes to do 10 lengths of the garden?

Activity 2: Tidy the palace/football pitch game. Place lots of objects all over the floor and ask your child to tidy the palace/football pitch. Set a timer of 1 minute or 2 minutes. How many can they collect before the timer runs out. Rules: they can only pick one object up at a time and they have to place it into the box.

Alternatively: Do the same but keep the timer going and stop it when all of the items are picked up and put away.

You could do this more than once! Why not beat your time from the day before?

Key vocabulary: minutes, seconds, timer, improve, quicker.

3) Extension for number work- Please only do if your child is secure with the above things. Please see attached below some useful tips and resources when learning about doubling.

Doubling: Please only go up to 20. For instance, double 2 is 4 and this is the same as 2+2=4 or 10+10=20, so double 10 is 20. Talk about what the work doubling means. Please use concrete objects, anything that your child is interested in, to do this. For example, Lego bricks, cars, dolls etc. You could write pairs of numbers up to 5 on cards and play a matching game. For example, 4 and 4 match, so double 4 is 8.

Part-part-whole model and a ten frame. We have used these already at school. You could create a car park and use cars to teach about doubling. You could use three bowls and use the part-part-whole model to look at doubling. You could use Lego bricks to learn about doubling. Use anything you have available or anything your child is interested in.

Here is a fun game that you could play. If you do not have dice, you could use a tissue box or any recyclable material to make your own.

Here are some useful websites.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ (this is an amazing site to use, it shows visual representations of creative and fun ideas). I would recommend you write something like EYFS maths).

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/my-account/ (click on the alien that says ‘Welcome, KIDS!’ This is free, simply register, click EYFS and then maths.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37. Focus activities

based upon number and weight

https://nrich.maths.org/13371.