Exploring and Playing
Short Blocks
Maths Reception Summer Addition and Subtraction
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.
Equivalence (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Point to any number on the 1-20 track. Children say the next three numbers. Repeat.
Number bonds
Play ‘Give me 5’. Show a number of fingers up to 5. Children show you the number of fingers needed to make 5, e.g. you show 4, they show 1.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing ‘5 little men in a flying saucer’, e.g. at Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer from www.bbc.co.uk
Pause to ask how many will be left each time.
Story
Quack and count by Keith Baker
You Will Need
Exploring and Playing
Conkers in a sand tray/pit or pebbles in a box of sand; a selection of 5, 6 or 7 animals; two pens; 2 to 12 number cards (with lots of 6 and 7 cards) and dominoes; trains and carriages in two colours
Active Learning
Pan balance (e.g. the sort used for number shapes), number shapes to 5 (or use sticks of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cubes); a whistle, whiteboard and pen; an egg box, 6 brown eggs and 6 white eggs, flipchart and pens; coat hanger, same coloured pegs, cloth.
Creating and Thinking Critically
Two cardboard boxes to make caves and six bears; 7 cards and blu-tac®; flipchart; a piece of paper with a large snake drawn with 7 spaces for each child, crayons/paints and brushes/sponges; 1 to 5 number cards; cubes; blank cards; Addition cards (see resources)
Bonds to 10 (suggested as 5 days)
Exploring and Playing
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Split the class into two groups. Display a 1-100 grid. The first group say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the 2nd group say 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, the 1st group say 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and so on alternating groups of 5 to count to 100.
Number bonds
Place 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
Pairs to 10
See download for words of the rhyme.
Story
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins
How many apples have been eaten? How many are left on the tree? Prompt children to try to remember to use number bonds to answer.
You Will Need
Exploring and Playing
10 small cups/ beakers, sand pit; ten bags/socks with 1, 2, 3…; 10 egg cups of dried beans in each with number labels, rocker balance; 10 small plastic bottles, a soft ball; ‘vases’ (plastic containers/cut-down bottles), lollipop sticks, ‘Flowerheads’ (see resources – print onto red and yellow card), glue.
Active Learning
Number shapes, e.g. Numicon, ‘Jigsaws to 10’ PowerPoint presentation (see resources); 10 pegs on a coat hanger, cloth, flipchart and pens, ‘Number bonds game track’ (see resources, copy onto A3), a dice marked up with just 1s and 2s, four different-coloured counters.
Creating and Thinking Critically
Flipchart and pens; Post-it® notes; pan balance (e.g. the sort used for number shapes, balance it first) and number shapes to 10 (or use sticks of 1, 2, 3… 10 cubes); Rainbow sheet (see resource, copy on to A3 paper) and coloured crayons; Pairs to 10 recording sheet (see resources)