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Southampton’s Big Share

April 2015 „Maths on a Budget‟

Cut wooden discs (sawn from a branch), put numbers on and match them with dots (like dominos)

Collect leaves and count them into flower pots

Children cut their own snack and count the pieces of melon/apple etc (including taking away)

Singing songs with actions and numbers

Get the children to count themselves in a key group / on a table etc

Car game - grouping / car park with numbers on spaces

Mud kitchen, counting spoons of 'ingredients', measuring etc

Cooking activity - reading simple recipe with numbers

Use coloured beads and bead threading

Create our own height chart encouraging the children to measure one another

Pegs and boards

Keys and key rings

Create shape boards create a setting on page eg a rocket a fish tank draw around the shapes we then allow children to find the right sized shapes to fit

Sand and water tray provide different sized jugs buckets bottles

Fruit and veg more show children one whole then cut into 2 4 6 8 pieces share between children

Bottles with numbers on

Make cakes involve children measuring ingredients, mixing, watching it change shape

Staff to always extend children's knowledge - "Oh you have two cars there, could you find

me two cars? etc."

Filling different sized bottles using cups –

How many cups do you think it will take to fill the bottle? (predicting beforehand) Counting how many cups it takes as they fill it Were you right? Was it more or less cups than you thought?

Using rulers, looking at numbers and drawing lines,

Height charts - who is bigger/smaller?

Comparing different sized objects,

Construction materials - how many blocks are in your tower?

Songs with numbers - 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive 5 little monkeys 5 little speckled frogs.

Shape hunts in the environment.

Playdough mats, sharing playdough out between children.

3 bears role play house.



Use card board boxes and put numbers on them with visual aid of 2 balls, 2 bean bags etc. Encourage the children to find the amount of objects that match the numeral on the box.

Hop scotch using a dice. Again use the numeral but also put the number of dots on the square so children can count, estimate which number matches that on the square.

Target practice. Make a target with numbers on, encourage children to throw bean bag to see where it lands. Or extend by placing numbers on the bean bag and encourage children to throw it to the correct target.

Numbers on bikes, match number to parking spaces.

Making spiders using pegs as legs - counting eight legs as they put them on. Hopscotch in the garden Using pictures of boys and girls, laminate them and make a whole in the bottom, use paper clips to represent how many brothers or sisters the children may have. (This could link to understanding of the world too) Using empty toilet rolls stick numbers on the front, children to put sticks in the holes to the amount of numbers on the front. Simple game of “What‟s the time, Mr Wolf?” in the garden.

Sock puppet snakes to show different lengths and sizes

Parking Spaces in the garden for bikes with corresponding numbers on bikes and parking space - recognising numerals

Bottles filled with different substances or objects represent different weights These can also

give a sensory aspect.

Milk Bottle tops to use as maths counters

Height charts using plain paper and pens. Compare heights of children, numerals and counting.

Chalk hopscotch like a number line with some flash cards, encourage children to jump example: 1 jump add 1 jump is 2 etc.

Chart outside with stickers, if children see an aeroplane, add an aeroplane sticker, bounce a ball add a ball sticker, add them up in group time. Hide and seek, find the amount of items on a flashcard, or picture treasure hunt to find the items which add to the answers.

Laminated shapes to play a game. Lay the shapes on the floor, the children walk/run between the shapes until the adult says "find the... triangle". The children find the shape and run to it. You could also have smaller laminated shapes, hole punched for threading and to develop fine motor skills.



Maths doesn't have to be boring or expensive if you take the child's interest you can take it a long way. e.g. if you have a child who likes cars you can count how many cars you have, number recognition you can make parking spaces and ask the child to drive his car in to a number. Outside, you can play different games like “What's the time, Mr Wolf?” - this way the child can count out the steps they have to make. Look for numbers out and about on walks e.g. number plates on cars, buses and houses.

Use resources found on the internet such as sparkle box.

We have numbers on our resources in the home corner so the children can match up the numbers and start to familiarise themselves with numbers.

We count with the children during play.

Outside:

Count the cars, buses etc that go by.

Counting how many bean bags the children can throw in a hoop.

Inside:

Have big bottles with numbers written on them and the children add the amount of number pom-poms that's on the bottle (for older children). Could also do the same with shapes. Have shapes on bottles and they have to match the right picture or shape.

Make your own height chart

Add numbers to bikes in the garden then parking places with the numbers on.

Make your own number dominoes for counting and matching

Number songs have a bag with the objects I.e five little ducks you would have the ducks and then remove them through the song

Make your own shape boards by cutting shapes out of paper and laminating them

I-spy game looking for different shapes around the environment you could get the children to make their own binoculars to see through using tubs

Numbers cards 1 to 10 adding the right number of objects under each number for counting

Counting with anything. Children‟s interest or activity - lego, play food, animals.. even counting children‟s snack and marks on paper.

Role modelling counting. "I have 4 frogs. 1 2 3 4"

Numbers in the environment - on bikes and have car parking spaces, matching numbers.

Sort and count bottles. Big bottles with numbers on. Use pom poms (any objects) to put inside the bottles. Matching quantity to numbers



Going around environment looking for particular shapes.

Drawing around any object, see what shape is made. Exploring 'how many similar shapes or different shapes'

Key and lock. Number / dots on lock and number on key.

Jug and ball catching game using milk bottles cut in half & a ball or foil made into a ball.

Sticky Fingers counting hands, draw round a set of hands stick to a card or board but leave fingers loose so you can fold them down then have cards showing simple sums (1+1=2,) or numbers so the children can use the fingers to count.

Adding machine, 2 loo rolls or kitchen rolls & a basket.

A size/sorting grid, make as many grids as needed then put small, big, different sized objects into the correct grid.

Data handling with same coloured objects, made a small block graph with numbers and/or colours, put objects into each square then count them up. (This and previous idea could be done in chalk).

For children who love cars, a garage with numbered parking bays for their cars, this could also be done with dinosaurs or animals. (can use a piece of cardboard, or chalk on the ground).

Garden number boxes similar to grids but make a small grid and find as many objects that correspond to that number, could extend this by finding object in the same colour or size (3, red circles, 5 Brown leaves etc).

Paint shapes using toilet rolls folded into the different shapes (square, star, circle etc)



Easter egg bingo You take the plastic eggs you can fill and put pieces of paper with numbers on inside, and mix them up in a tray. Encourage the children to pick one out, open it up and say the number inside. We got our eggs from a pound shop they came in packs of 20.



We saved lots of different plastic bottles and containers and their lids (drinks and fabric softener bottles, spice containers etc.) Children take turns to choose a bottle and match up a lid to it. They are matching size, colour, texture etc. Containers can be re-used for junk modelling, water play etc afterwards.

Provide a range of materials for children to use to make repeating patterns. These could include objects for printing or objects to be arranged e.g.

- dip old shoes with different patterned soles into water and print a pattern on the playground

- paint old tyres with paint and print a pattern on large sheets of paper - use small apparatus – skipping ropes, quoits, bean bags etc – and arrange in a

pattern on the playground - collect natural materials – sticks, pebbles, leaves etc- and make a repeating

pattern around the edge of the playground. - use fingers / tools (feathers, combs, cotton reels, glue spreaders etc) to make

patterns in wet sand - use people to make a pattern e.g stand, stand, sit



Leaves are free and available all year round! Sharing leaves: how many leaves needed for everyone to have two each? Sort leaves by colour, species, number of tips, size Match leaves: Leaf Lotto game Order leaves by size Measuring: how many leaves needed from A-B? Collect up and count leaves Calculate: use leaves to work out rhymes eg 5 little leaves Hide a set of interesting objects (e.g. pretend jewels) around your outdoor area, then take the children on a hunt to find them. After a set amount of time, meet back together to talk about the „treasure‟.

Questions could include:

- How might you count your jewels? - How many jewels have you found? - How can you be sure you have counted all of the jewels? Could you check in a

different way? - Who has collected the most / least? How do you know? - How could we sort the jewels?

You will need: a soft-toy rabbit. Chant the following rhyme, matching each verse by the appropriate number of fingers and a suitable action. One big bunny rabbit bouncing just like you, Along came another one and then there were two. Two big bunny rabbits digging by a tree, Along came another one and then there were three. Three big bunny rabbits eating even more . . . Four big bunny rabbits glad to be alive . . . Five big bunny rabbits jumping over bricks . . . Six big bunny rabbits living down in Devon . . . Seven big bunny rabbits squeezing through the gate . . . Eight big bunny rabbits hopping in a line . . . Nine big bunny rabbits sitting in a pen . . . Ten big bunny rabbits running in the furrow Out came the moon so they went down in their burrow. Use the toy rabbit to match fingers to spoken numerals. Bunny says he has five friends! Show me five bunnies on your fingers. The children show five fingers. Say the appropriate verse: Five big bunny rabbits jumping over bricks; Along came another one and then there were six. Use the rabbit again. Bunny says he has . . . pause to add suspense . . . three friends. As fast as possible children show you three fingers! Praise those who are fast

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