Guide to Supporting Early Maths

The Acorns guide to Supporting Early Maths at Home:

Gardening:

• Counting the number of flowers, seeds and pots. Estimate how many different scoops of compost are needed to fill different sized pots.
• Experience heavy and light when moving different pots.
• Compare the length of shoots, roots, worms and leaves using comparitive language: short, shorter, shortest etc...

Set the table for dinner

How many knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups, placemats?

Matching pairs

• Can your child help you with the laundry by finding matching pairs of socks? 
• Activities such as this are the start of visual discrimination.