Mathematical Skills / Experience

Mathematical Skills / Experience

Mathematical experiences go on in the Nursery on a daily basis. Some of the skills are not exclusive but overlap with skills mentioned in other areas of the curriculum.

  1. Simple counting (through number songs and action songs , counting games and activities)
  2. One to one correspondence / relationship. ( to encourage understanding of concept of numbers).
  3. Shape identification and discrimination.
  4. Construction activities to develop an understanding of shape and space.
  5. Water and sand play : to develop concept of volume and capacity.
  6. Introduce to mathematical language.
  7. Basic concepts of measurement.
  8. Sorting.
  9. Classifying.
  10. Comparing.
  11. Ordering / patterning.
  12. Before and after pictures.
  13. Number recognition.