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Welcome to the Maths Play Carnival! This week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Maths Play. Please share an idea for any kind of maths play – a new post or one from your archive. Numbers, counting, measuring, patterning, size, shapes, fractions – what maths play do you enjoy? Help us . . . → Read More: Carnival of Maths Play Teaching children fractions is easy in the kitchen as meal times are when we apply fractions to our everyday lives. Whether we realise it or not every time we make sandwiches, cut up a cake or share out slices of pizza we’re using fractions. Here are some ideas you can use with children to introduce fractions . . . → Read More: Eat some fractions
Did you see the marble painting we did yesterday? It was great roly-poly fun and we decided that instead of just adding to our picture gallery we would use the designs to make a shape garland. We had lots of chat about which shapes we would use and decided to stick with circles, . . . → Read More: Shape garland
What? Repeating patterns are everywhere: in fabric designs, buildings in your neighbourhood, in the songs that you sing. Any sequence of colours, shapes, actions that repeact twice or more become a repeating pattern. Why? So what have repeating patterns got to do with your children’s play? Well, by looking out for . . . → Read More: Maths games: repeating patterns You can make maths much more fun if you mix in some songs and imaginary play. Today we’ve been counting backwards and singing ‘Ten in the Bed’. First we took a cardboard box and used some fabric scraps to make a bedsheet, pillows and blanket.
Then we made 10 little people and . . . → Read More: Ten in the bed game
One potato, two potato, three potato, four Five potato, six potato, seven potato more It’s easy to include some maths in your garden if you’ve been growing your own fruit and vegetables. You could… Count how many potatoes you have. Draw up a chart to record the harvest from your garden and add up . . . → Read More: One potato, two potato  |
   
                    
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