Parents/Carers of children in reception
Each week we will publish a weekly 'maths challenge'. These challenges will consist of short practical activities for your child to complete at home and will help your child to see maths as fun. The challenges relate to the different areas of learning within our curriculum: Numbers and Shape, space and measures (SSM). You can repeat the activity as many times as your child wants to and please feel free to change and adapt the ideas to suit your child's interest, what you have in your house and their current level of development. If your child would like to represent their thinking on paper let them do so in their own way. For example, they might not want to write numbers, but they might want to draw to communicate their mathematical thinking.
When we return after half term, our maths focus will be revising our numbers to 20 and working on our number formation. Here are a few challeneges which your child might choose to complete:
What is the biggest number you can think of?
What is the smallest number you can think of?
Practise writing these numbers at home.
Can you write your numbers from 0 to 10?
Can you find ten things to count in your house?
Practise writing these numbers at home.
Can you write your numbers from 0 to 20?
Can you find twenty things to count in your house?
Practise writing these numbers at home.
How many footsteps from your house to the bottom of the garden?
Your front door to the bedroom?
Your kitchen to your bathroom?
What happens to the number if you take bigger steps?
Practise writing these numbers.
What is your house number?
Can you think of a smaller number than this?
What is your neighbours door number?
Practise writing these numbers.
