Maths Expectations in the Early Years Foundation Stage

1. Maths Expectations in theEarly Years Foundation Stage

2. Aims and Objectives • Developmental stages of learning to count and the basic principals of counting in the early years. • Explore the resources we use. • Understand the basic end of year expectations within the Early Years Foundation Stage framework for maths.

3. The principals of counting in the early years: • The ‘one - one’ principal • The ‘stable order principal’ • The ‘cardinal principal • The ‘abstract principal’ • The ‘order irrelevance principal’ • (Gelman and Gallistel 1978)

4. Maths Mastery Structure Autumn: • Early Mathematics Experiences • Pattern and Early number • Numbers within 6 • Addition and Subtraction within 6 • Measures: Length, Shape and Sorting A focused adult-led session with direct teacher input and high language expectations.

5. Principles of Maths Mastery • Teachers reinforce an expectation that all pupils are capable of achieving high standards in mathematics. • The large majority of pupils progress through the curriculum content at the same pace. • Differentiation is achieved by emphasising deep knowledge and through individual support and intervention. • Teaching is underpinned by methodical curriculum design and supported by carefully crafted lessons and resources to foster deep conceptual and procedural knowledge. • Practice and consolidation play a central role. Carefully designed variation within this builds fluency and understanding of underlying mathematical concepts in tandem. • Teachers use precise questioning in class to test conceptual and procedural knowledge, and assess pupils regularly to identify those requiring intervention so that all pupils keep up.

6. Early Years Foundation Stage Framework Mathematics: Number Early Learning Goal: • Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. • Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. • They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

7. Early Years Foundation Stage Framework Mathematics: Shape, space and measure Early Learning Goal: • Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. • They recognise, create and describe patterns. • They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

8. Mathematics Mastery in EYFS Daily Maths Meetings – 10 minutes • Days of the week • Months of the year • Seasons • Counting • Shapes Maths Mastery 3 x 40 minutes a week

11. Concrete – Pictorial - Abstract

12. School Resources

13. Ideas for home • Counting, chanting, songs; • Everyday mathematics in the real world – counting stairs, counting steps, recognising door numbers • Missing numbers – play the fool! Count incorrectly can they correct you? • Make patterns using leaves/twigs/cones etc • Ordering by size, length • Sorting by a given criteria • Days of the week – today? tomorrow?

14. Essential Skills ‘Pupils need to recognise, select and write the digits that represent the numbers to 20 have an understanding of the concept of addition and subtraction have a range of strategies to support them in answering mathematical challenges

15. KS1 Expectations