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This book focuses on the development of oral language skills and provides guidelines for setting objectives for activities, materials and preparation, key vocabulary, and directions for implementation.
Practical Activities for Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Practical Activities for Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
This chapter considers the various ways that practitioners can plan for mathematically linked activities and build on the experiences that the children have previously enjoyed in their home environment. Practitioners who are planning for mathematical experiences with in the Early Years Foundation stage need to organise activities and learning opportunities which enable the children to find out more about numbers as labels and to have the opportunity to explore number situations such as counting on and counting back. Children also benefit from experiences which relate to shape, space, measuring and recognition of pattern. Practitioners can not only help children to name shapes correctly, but also support them when they think ...
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