Maths - EYFS

At Hunslet Carr, we teach our maths in EYFS following a  Mastery approach so that we have high expectations for all of our children and don't put a ceiling on their learning. Successful teaching of Mastery maths in the EYFS lies within the context of high quality classroom provision, based within our indoor and outdoor learning environments. Our mathematically rich environment provides a range of contexts for our children to explore concepts using different representations on multiple occasions, using concrete, pictorial and abstract resources:

It is important that we focus upon deepening our children's mathematical understanding, and not accelerate through learning. As  we are a caring school, the emphasis is placed on the enjoyment of mathematical ideas, language and activities as well as purposeful interactions with confident adults.

Our children are encouraged to communicate their mathematical thinking in a wide variety of ways including:
manipulation of resources, gesture, pointing, body language, mark-making and talk. This allows our children to acquire    a secure and long-term understanding of maths, making continual progress in order to move onto topics, which are more complex.
Mastery Maths in our EYFS is planned for in a range of ways including daily focussed  sessions, continuous provision and focussed interventions. Our curriculum is designed to focus on the six key areas of mastery in considerable depth. These areas are:

• Cardinality  and counting
• Comparison
• Composition
• Pattern
• Shap and Space
• Measure

We use a range of resources to support our curriculum including guidance from the White Rose Maths Hub, Number Blocks, NCETM Early Years Area, NRich and  Learning Trajectories.
Our current curriculum explores each number in depth, focussing on its links to real live as well a functions. For example when exploring the number 3, we look at the '3 'ness' of 3, 3 sided shapes, 3 step patterns and real-life links such as the house number 3 and being the 3rd house in the road. The children are encouraged to explore patterns within numbers and in turn innately experiment with relationships between our six key areas of mastery

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