This bitesize session will look at exploring maths play in the environment. Practitioners will gain an understanding of the importance of mathematical play.
Understanding of playful maths in the environment both indoors and outdoors.
Resources and activity ideas to support practitioners to understand how maths can be embedded throughout the provision.
| Date | Time | Location |
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Wednesday 11, October 2023 |
9.30 am to 10.30 am | Online |
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Thursday, 23 November 2023 |
7 pm to 8 pm | Online |
Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.
Practitioners attending this course will be able to:
- Develop an understanding of how children learn to count by looking at early skills they need to gain such as matching and sorting
- Learn strategies and practical ideas to support playful mathematics in the early years
- Gain tools to be able to consider how to review your own mathematical provision effectively.
| Date | Time | Location |
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Wednesday, 8 May 2024 |
9.30 am to 10.30 am | Online |
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024 |
6 pm to 8 pm | Online |
Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) are offering a Maths Champion programme. The programme is free of charge to Private, Voluntary or Independent, maintained and school-based providers in England.
Outline/aims of the programme:
- Improve practitioners’ knowledge of children’s mathematical development
- Support practitioners’ understanding of how to support maths in everyday practice
- Build confidence in how to improve mathematical outcomes for children
- Proven to boost children’s maths and language attainment by an average of three months
- A 12-month, flexible online programme
- Nominate a Maths Champion and deputy champion for the setting
- Access to extensive resources.
Improve your everyday maths with the National Numeracy an independent charity working to improve numeracy across the UK.
The challenge is a free website to help you check and improve your numeracy - the maths you use in daily life and at work, like managing your money, working out measurements or understanding percentages, rather than algebra or trigonometry.
Supporting Mathematics in the Early Years
The aims of the workshop:
- To explore the theory behind maths and children’s play
- To identify what children, learn holistically from a knowledge of maths
- To develop maths in our everyday activities and routines
- To explore the ‘language of maths’
- To understand that some people have difficulties with maths and why
- To identify how we can involve parents in early years maths education.
