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Welcome to our new set of EYFS resources. We have designed these, in partnership with our Early Years practitioner partners, to support you in developing the initial building blocks for mathematical thinking, reasoning and problem solving with your children. We know how crucial these building blocks are to children’s later success in mathematics. All these resources link to the new Early Years
Foundation Stage Framework.
What do the resources look like?
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Each of them has:
• suggestions of rich contexts for exploring mathematical ideas and developing mathematical skills and concepts
• details of linked mathematics learning goals
• descriptions of the mathematical journey that the learners may take through the task
• suggestions for prompts and questions to elucidate mathematical responses from the children.
Each resource starts with an activity that children enjoy and suggests how, as adults, we might work with the children to maximize its mathematical potential.
In addition to the mathematical opportunities we offer, you may like to make your own, rich connections to other learning goals from other areas of learning that these resources can facilitate.
How can you help us develop these resources?
Send us some real examples of the activities in action
To make these resources even more useful we’d love to have:
• photographs of children engaging with these tasks
• examples of what they say
• examples of what they create
• examples of the mathematics that you created together.
Everything from one photo upwards is very welcome. Thank you.
Let us know if you have permission for us to publish what you send on the NRICH site and if you are happy for us to do that.
Send us your feedback
It could be about the layout, the activity or both.
Feel free to send a few sentences or a longer reflection.
The layout:
• How well did the layout and content communicate the potential mathematical richness of each activity?
• Did it give you what you needed to try it out in your setting?
• If not, what additional information would be useful?
• Have you any ideas for making the layout of each activity even more ‘user-friendly’?
The activity:
• How did the activity work for your children?
• What supported their mathematical learning?
• What surprised/ interested you?
Our email is enquiries.nrich@maths.org. We’d be delighted to hear from you and very much appreciate your support in developing these activities further.
To explore all the activities:
In Pdf form
In Word format
In Pages format
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