Exploring and Playing
Maths Reception Summer Understanding Number
Hamilton's Reception Maths planning targets the key characteristics of effective early learning:
- Through Exploring and Playing, children independently engage with their peers and their environment.
- Active Learning group activities promote the motivation needed to be involved and to keep trying.
- Guided Creating and Thinking Critically supports development of problem-solving & reasoning skills.
Maths Out Loud: whole-class counting, repetitive chants, rhymes, songs and a linked story to enjoy together.
Teen numbers: 10 and some more (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Cover all multiples of 10 on a 1-100 grid with sticky notes. Use the grid to support counting to 100, with children using their fingers to match the 1s digits of the numbers. Emphasise numbers ending in 0 and 5.
Number bonds
With children in pairs, ask each pair to show you 10 fingers altogether, so one child might show 6 and the other might show 4. Now ask them to do this in a different way. Repeat.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Together, sing a song which counts to 20, e.g. Let's Count to 20 Song For Kids.
Story
Read Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles (an animal counting book) by Christopher Wormell. Together count how many legs, spots, eyes etc are on the animals (up to 20).
Also see:
Handa's Hen by Eileen Browne.
You Will Need
Exploring and playing
Role-play shop, pretend snack items, labels, 10p and 1p coins, purses, red and blue plastic bricks, e.g. Duplo if building inside, or larger outdoor bricks if building outside, three labelled pots of counters in the role-play shop, sticky notes, playdough, boards, counters, 1-20 number track (see resources).
Active Learning
Large wooden/plastic bricks - the sort used outside, flip, straws/lolly sticks, elastic bands, 10 to 20 number cards (see resources), 10 and 1s place value cards (see resources), interlocking cubes.
Creating and Thinking Critically
10p and 1p coins; number shapes, e.g. Numicon; 20-bead strings (10 beads in one colour, 10 in a different colour -rather than groups of 5) or 100-bead strings (using only the first 20 beads), 10 to 20 number cards (see resources), strips of card, double-side sticky tape, clear tape, lots of blue and red counters.
Exploring 100 (suggested as 5 days)
Exploring and Playing
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Together, chant the numbers to 100, using both hands to mark the 10s: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! 11, 12 etc.
Number bonds
Put children in pairs: one child is a lion, the other a tiger! Tigers, show me 4 fingers. They calculate how many fingers their partner (the lion) must hold up to show 6 altogether. Repeat, asking tigers to show 0 to 6 fingers. Lions show the complement to 6. Try to build up the pace!
Tigers and lions swap roles. (Use for any pair you want to practise from 5 to 10.)
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing or say the Centipede song (see resources) or learn it here before using with the class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUor8a5ARs
Story
The hundred decker bus by Mike Smith
or
Doggies by Sandra Boynton.
You Will Need
Exploring and playing
Small 1-100 number grids (see resources); colouring pencils; baskets of between 10 and 50 items; sticky notes; large 1 to 100 number grid; access to the book corner; a pack of 10, 20, 30… 100 cards; access to the sand tray/pit
Active Learning
A 1-100 number track, scissors (or use the Numicon 1-100 card number track pieces); 100-bead bar and 10s tags; 100 cubes; 1-100 grid; 10, 20, 30… 100 number cards
Creating and Thinking Critically
A set of two-digit number cards; 1-100 number grid; sticky notes; mini-whiteboards, pens and wipers; at least 100 cubes; a pack of 10, 20, 30… 100 cards
Number games (suggested as 5 days)
Exploring and Playing
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Point to numbers on a 1-100 grid (see resources) as children pass a teddy around the circle while counting to 100. Whoever says a multiple of 10 holds the bear up in the air. Carry on round and round the circle to 100.
Number bonds
Roll a large 1 to 6 dice. Children show you on their fingers how many are needed to make 6. If you roll a 6, they just hold up a fist to show zero!
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Use a counting to 100 song to get fit! E.g. Let's Get Fit - Count to 100
Story
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book by April Pulley Sayre, Jeffrey Sayre and Randy Cecil.
You Will Need
Exploring and playing
A complete set of 28 0-0 to 6-6 dotty dominoes; Dotty paper’ (see resources), coloured pencils; small construction blocks/ bricks, e.g. Lego; paper, paint, brushes.
Active Learning
‘Teens cards’ (see resources); containers of small attractive objects, e.g. gem pebbles, dish; centimetre cubes, two glass jars, mini-whiteboards and pens; 130 objects, e.g. Lego bricks, counters, pieces of pasta; 5 plates; 5 cloths, number cards (10, 20 and 100) for each pair of children, and a set for under the plates.
Creating and Thinking Critically
Counters; three plates and a variety of small objects; see-through bag of at least 15 apples, an identical bag of jigsaw pieces (between 50 and 100); 130 pennies (or counters), other small objects e.g. pasta pieces, counters, clear food bags.