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early maths
3 articles on early maths, newest first.
Counting to 20: Why Reciting Numbers Is Not the Same as CountingPlenty of three-year-olds can chant to twenty. Ask them to hand you four biscuits and many will hand you a fistful. The gap between those two things is the whole of early number sense.Read the article →
Shapes and Colours: A Toddler's First Sixteen Words of MathematicsCircle, square, triangle, red, blue, yellow. These look like vocabulary. They are actually the labels a child needs before they can describe, compare or sort anything at all.Read the article →
What Comes Next? Patterns Are One of the Strongest Early Predictors of MathsRed, blue, red, blue, … A child who can finish that row is doing something research has repeatedly linked to their mathematics achievement years later. Here is why, and how to practise it.Read the article →Related topics