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Number

Nursery

Reception

Autumn

Spring

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Autumn

Spring

Summer

Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (‘subitising’).

Recite numbers past 5. . . Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.

Listen to and join in with number rhymes and number songs.

Say one number for each item in order: 1,2,3,4,5

Know that the last number reached when counting a small set of objects tells you how many there are in total (‘cardinal principle’)

Listen to and join in with number rhymes and number songs.

Link numerals and amounts: for example, showing the right number of objects to match the numeral, up to 5 (up to 10 for those who are ready)

Listen to and join in with number rhymes and number songs.

Develop the key skills of counting objects including saying the numbers in order and matching one number name to each item.

Estimate and guess how many there might be before counting.

Joins in and sings counting songs and number rhymes.

Listen to and enjoy stories that involve counting.

Look at small quantities in familiar patterns – for example a dice – and random arrangements, saying how many they can see.

Use 5 frames and 10 frames to become familiar with the tens structure of the number system.

Talk about how many spaces are filled or unfilled.

Link the number symbol (numeral) with its cardinal number value.

Explore the composition of numbers to 10

Automatically recall number bonds for numbers 0- 5/0-10.

Have a deep understanding of number 10, including the composition of each number.

Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5.

Automatically recall – without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids – number bonds up to 5.

Recall some number bonds to 10, including doubling facts.

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Photo and pictorial prompts to support with understanding

Use of Makaton/Communication boards to support with explaining understanding

Consistent practical resources e.g. Numicon

Apply in daily situations e.g. dice with game playing.

Mathematics Skills Progression

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Numerical Patterns

Nursery

Reception

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals.

Solve real world mathematical problems with numbers up to 5.

Compare quantities using language: ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’.

Talk about and identify the patterns around them.

Extend and create ABAB patterns – stick, leaf, stick, leaf. Notice and correct an error in a repeating pattern.

Begin to describe a sequence of events, real or fictional, using words such as ‘first’, ‘then

Use vocabulary ‘more than’, ‘less than’, ‘fewer’, ‘the same as’, ‘equal to’. and start to notice patterns within them.

Distribute items evenly from a group

Understand the ‘one more than/one less than’ relationship between consecutive numbers.

Count beyond 10, noticing patterns within the structure of counting.

Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system.

Become familiar with two-digit numbers

Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less that or the same as another quantity.

Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.

SEND Provision

Photo and pictorial prompts to support with understanding

Use of Makaton/Communication boards to support with explaining understanding

Consistent practical resources e.g. Numicon

Apply in daily situations e.g. dice with game playing.

Mathematics Skills Progression

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Shape, Space and Measure (no longer an ELG)

Nursery

Reception

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.

Understand position through words alone with no pointing.

Select shapes appropriately: flat surfaces for building, a triangular prism for a roof, etc.

Combine shapes to make new ones – an arch, a bigger triangle, etc

Select, rotate and manipulate shapes in order to develop spatial reasoning skills

Compare length, weight and capacity.

Continue, copy and create repeating patterns

Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can

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Extra shape resources e.g. shape puzzles & boxes etc.

Photo and pictorial prompts to support with understanding

Use of Makaton/Communication boards to support with explaining understanding.

Mathematics Skills Progression