1. Reception Maths workshop

2. • How you can help at home!
Aims
To break down the elements of the Early Learning Goals for Number and Shape, Space & Measure.
• How you can help at home!
• To explain some strategies we use to help children meet the Maths Early Learning Goals through work in class.

3. Early Learning Goals
By the end of EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage), the expectation is that children should be working at the Early Learning Goal in 17 areas of learning. These include:
3 areas of Personal, Social & Emotional Development.
3 areas of Communication and Language.
2 areas of Physical Development.
2 areas of Literacy.
2 areas of Maths.
3 areas of Understanding the World.
2 areas of Creative Development.

4. The Maths Early Learning Goals
• Number.
• Shape, Space & Measure.
There are lots of constituent parts. These cover a broad range of knowledge and skills.

5. Number Early Learning Goal
• Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20 and recognise them all.
• Place them in order.
Say which number is one more or one less than a given number.
• Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single digit numbers.
• Count on or back to find the answer.
They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

6. Shape, Space & Measure Early Learning Goal
• Children use everyday language to talk about size (e.g.
smallest, largest, enormous, tiny, medium, smaller
than, larger than, longer than, shorter than, wider than, thinner than).
• Compare the weight of objects (heaviest, lightest, heavier than, lighter than).
• Use language of capacity (full, empty, half full, half empty, more cups than, less cups than).
• Use prepositional language (behind, in front of, next to, under, over.)
• Use language of time (later than, earlier than, before, after, morning, evening, night, weekend, days of the week, o’clock).

7. Continued…! • Use language of money (how much, using coin values, adding coins) • Recognise, create and describe patterns. (repeating patterns) • They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes (roll, stack, slide) and use mathematical language to describe them (2d and 3d shape names, how many corners, faces edges.)

8. How can this be supported at home?
There are numbers around us the whole time – Discuss these with your child.
• Make number lines together to 20. Count on and back on them to add and subtract.
• Play board games. The children can count on and count back in a fun way and dice are super for number recognition!
Lots of counting songs, counting backwards and forwards
• Count things such as stairs, lego bricks, smarties in a tube etc (how many pink smarties? How many red smarties? How many smarties would there be if you added together the pink and red smarties? How would you write that number?)
• Share out food equally between brothers and sisters or between you and your child, e.g. “one for me, one for Max, one for me, one for Max. Is it fair? Has everyone got the same amount?”

9. TEEN NUMBERS!!!! 17

10. Tips for shape, space and measure
Use different objects to measure things. Is the number bigger or smaller and what does that mean? Measure using hands, paper clips, cubes, rulers and compare the sizes.
• Make or buy a teaching clock. Talk about what the
hands on the clock will look like when it’s time to go to bed etc. Where would the big hand be if it is ‘o-clock?’
• Talk about 2D and 3D shapes when making junk models and
doing the shopping. Do they roll or can you stack them? Count the
corners and faces (putting a sticker on the ones you have counted helps keep track.)
• Cook! This is wonderful for weighing
and capacity language.

11. Useful websites
Youtube for lots of counting songs Ten town (please ask Miss Haynes for a code if you would like to sign up for this programme)