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Four Acres Academy
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MATHS
What do we want children to be able to do by the end of their Reception year?
- Be secure recognising and counting to 10
- Know their number bonds to 5 off by heart
- Be able to break down numbers e.g 3 + 2 makes 5
- Recognise numbers to 20, with some understanding of odd and even.
- Recognise amounts without counting e.g. dice faces
- Be able to say one more or one less than a number to 10
- Using real life objects be able to do simple addition and subtraction problems
- Begin to problem solve by doubling, halving and sharing
Learning to count
Children often start school being able to say the numbers 1 - 10 (or beyond) in the correct order. However when they count objects they don't quite understand quantity and how many they have altogether.
In the children's first few weeks we teach a number a week so that the children fully understand the quantity of that number and so they are secure when counting objects.
It is also quite common for a child to touch each object as they count, but when you ask them how many altogether they say a different number. This shows us that they are not quite understanding quantity.