Although Nursery children don’t do maths as a standalone subject, teachers encourage an understanding of maths concepts, such as counting to 10 and recognising basic shapes.
Give your child a great start to maths, with our Nursery maths articles and worksheets to help you child get to grips with concepts like directions, daily routines, measurements and repeating patterns.
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What your child learns in Nursery maths
Times tables and long division may be a way off, but the basic numeracy skills your child begins to learn in Nursery will lay the foundations for the years ahead.
Early maths skills: how your child learns about number
Counting may seem as easy as one-two-three to us, but it’s a tricky skill for your child to learn. We explain the stages of getting to grips with number in Reception and Year 1.
Find a clothes hanger and two plastic cups and let's make some balance scales! Then we can have fun balancing different objects. What is heavier – a 10p coin or a toy car?
Packed with colourful activities that focus on early English, maths and science skills, as well as supporting your child’s physical and social development, this is the perfect way to hep your child prepare for Reception.
Here are just some of the skills your child will practise:
Letter formation
Name recognition
Following instructions
Story sequencing
Recognising numbers
Carrying out science investigations
Identifying 2D and 3D shapes
Work through the activities in the booklet and you'll show them that learning is fun, exciting and amazing.
You can support your child's numeracy learning at home by following our Nursery Maths Learning Journey programme. There are 40 worksheets in the programme, one for each week of term.
By following the programme you'll be able to develop your child's early numeracy skills, including shapes, number recognition and ordering from first to last.
This bumper eBook of carefully crafted, interactive activities is ideally suited for parents of children in the earliest stages of their education. With 60 bright, entertaining and beautifully illustrated activities, all with easy to follow guidelines, this book is perfect for getting 3-5 year olds on the road to learning fun.
The activities are grouped together by 10 themes – from dinosaurs to the farmyard, via nursery rhymes and ‘people who help us’. Each activity is beautifully illustrated and comes with any accompanying worksheets or other resources (like board games) you might need to make the most of it.
With the emphasis on fun, interactive activities that we can enjoy with our young children, The Nursery and Reception Activity eBook is packed full of brilliant activities, games, songs, rhymes and more to make learning a real delight.
