Numeracy

Early Numeracy (Age 3-4) It's never too early to explore numbers with your child. Real life often provides the best opportunities to develop early maths skills like counting and recognising numbers. These ideas will help your child to explore numbers, giving them a great start to developing early maths skills and concepts. Oxford Owl has some great practical ideas for how you can support your child at home. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-maths-age-3-4-early-years/

Playing games is a fun and engaging way of practising maths at home! Click on the Fun Maths Games slide to view lots of games for families to play at home, outside or on holiday with little or no resources.

And if you need resources, try PolyPad or Toy Theatre (below).

Maths Games

Polypad - Polypad is a website that contains lots of different types of maths manipulatives. Whether you need coins, clocks, fractions or numicon, a protractor, playing cards or dice, Polypad lets you and your child play with all those things online.

Toy Theatre - Lots of maths tools and manipulatives, including jars of marbles, fractions and interactive clocks.

Online Games and Apps

Sumdog - lots of maths games that use questions based on your child's ability.

Topmarks - lots of different maths games that can be tailored to the appropriate skill and level. Home of the famous Hit the Button.

Early Level adding game on BBC Bitesize

Times Tables - Learning and practising our times tables is a really important skill, and one that can be practised easily at home. Knowing times tables can help with lots of other areas of maths. Click below for some videos, resources and ideas for practising tables at home.