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Starting Points
Exploring 'Big' Numbers
Young children are fascinated by big numbers, often asking, ‘What is the biggest number there is?’
Counting: Freddo cupcakes
In everyday learning incorporate the language of mathematics through cooking. Freddo cupcakes can be used in incidental one-to-one opportunities, small group situations or whole group interactive sessions.
A Counting Activity
Read the book Ten in the bed from start to finish. After reading the story, invite discussion and observation of individual pages and illustrations. Focus on mathematical discussion; counting, spotting differences or similarities, colour, shape, size, distance and pattern.
Early Childhood Learning with Digital Technologies
How can mathematical understanding for young learners be enhanced through digital technologies?
Patterns and Arrays
In exploring pattern, one to one correspondence and possibly concepts of number using arrays.
Spatial Relations
The child is developing concepts of spatial relations, direction and transformation – flip slide and turn, to match the shapes to the corresponding spaces.
Exploring numbers and mathematical symbols.
Informal Measurement
This child is exploring measurement of mass through balancing the scale.
