Mathematical Development

This Area of Learning:

• helps to develop your child's ability to count
• will help your child to gain an understanding of what numbers actually represent
• encourages your child to use mathematical words such as greater, smaller, more, less, heavier, lighter, behind, in front of, next to
• will help your child to develop skills in comparing and sorting objects into groups
• develops your child's ability to recognise and recreate simple patterns
• will help your child to understand measurement
• supports your child's understanding of shapes and size
• will help to develop your child's understanding of two and three dimensional shapes