Early years maths focuses on building a foundation for understanding numbers, shape, space, and measure through play, exploration, and daily routines. This includes:

• Noticing

• Creating sets 

• Comparing 

• Subitising (the ability to instantly recognise the number of objects in a small group without counting them one by one.)

• Composition 

• Counting 

 

Early maths approaches encourage practitioners and children to be ‘users’ of maths; noticing, comparing, labelling and recognising patterns at all stages of curriculum learning.

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