Calculation Guidelines for Children in Nursery

Children will use practical, investigative, activities through play to develop their understanding of early mathematical concepts including:

• Counting
• Number recognition
• Matching quantity to number
• More, less, same, equal amounts
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Sharing

The children will have access to the following resources and activities to support their learning:

• Number rhymes including puppets and books
• Dice games
• Comparing Numicon plates
• Small world number stories
• Construction- bricks to build towers- more, less
• Tuff tray with different materials where scoops can be used to fill and empty containers
• Sorting toys
• ICT game- more, comparing
• Role play e.g. playing shops, house garages etc which all involved number in real life situations
• Jigsaws and puzzles
• Play dough, pressing Numicon shapes in and other counting and calculating tasks.
• Beads and pasta on pipe cleaners.
• Number games such as hopscotch and what;s the time Mr Wolf etc
• Activities to match numbers to objects.
• Snack time- counting spoons of cereal into their bowl and hsaring snack equally.
• Simple marks for tallies to count actions.
• Junk modelling- how many pieces of tape do you need, 1 more etc.
• Stories involved with number
• Using fingers to count