Today in Cart Mill we went on a number hunt. We searched high and low for numbers. We found them everywhere. Some were hard to spot! Luckily more helpers joined us on our hunt to spot some more. We discussed that numbers are all around us and why the numbers we found are important.
We found numbers on the clock on the wall. Those numbers are important because they tell us what time it is.
We found numbers on the buttons on the phone. We know that you need to dial lots of numbers to phone somebody.
We found numbers on the microwave. We know those buttons tell us how long we need to put our food in for to heat it up.
We found numbers on the stage, those numbers help us with our action songs and games we preform while on the stage.
We even found numbers on our clothes. This number is important because it tells us our age.
Numbers really are everywhere at Cart Mill. Number recognition is a great skill to have. It helps us with so many tasks, and introduces us to the importance of numbers and what they are for.
Maybe you can go on a number hunt in your house, or even spot numbers when you are out in your local area or shopping.
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Maths Week Scotland in the Discovery
This week is Maths Week Scotland. The children in the Discovery room are showing off their number recognition skills.
“We can match the pebbles with the numbers”
They decided to use our loose parts box to match the parts with the numbers eg. “It’s number 7, we can use 7 pebbles”
”what about sea shells, 1,2…6,7”
Loose parts are not just shells and pebbles, they are open ended resources meaning they can be used for anything, counting, sorting, making patterns, transient art. The list goes on.
The children then decided to sort the numbers in order from 1-9, they worked together to swap them round until in the right order.
“Put the 5 next to 4 and 7”
”Number 3 is upside down”
