1. Maths in the Foundation Stage at Thameside Primary School.

2. Can you tell the person next to you what maths you have used in the last 24 hours?

3. You use maths all the time!
Shopping
Looking at the clock
Making tea
Buying a drink
Doing the laundry
Cooking

4. Numbers Reciting numbers 1:1 correspondence Recognising numbers
1-5 and then 1-10
Knowing the difference
between numbers and
letters.
Having more or less

5. Adding – knowing that you have to count two groups of numbers to find the total
Subtracting – Knowing that the total changes

6. Writing numbers – song!
Finding doubles of numbers to 10
Understanding sharing and halving

7. Shape
Being able to name 2D shapes and 3D shapes and describe them, e.g. number of sides, corners (2D shapes), number and shape of faces (3D shapes).

8. Measures
Measuring – longer than, shorter than, heavier than, lighter than
Capacity – full, empty, heavier, lighter, half full, almost empty
Time – sequencing, talking about how long things take, noticing how clocks work.

9. Patterns
Repeated patterns – being able to say what comes next in a repeated pattern, being able to create their own patterns
Sorting – by colour, shape, object, size
Matching – what things are the same/different?

10. What you can do at home to help.
Hand out
Please have fun at the
Maths Party with your
children!
Thank-you for coming.