Aim

Glasgow Counts in our Playrooms is a career long professional learning programme designed to support the delivery of the Early Level 1 aspects of the Numeracy Curriculum.

GCIP Early Level Framework

Glasgow Counts Framework-colour-2019

Glasgow Counts- Early Level Evaluation/Audit Tool

Numeracy Learning Environment

Reading and Research

The sessions have been written using the following key texts to support:

• Mathematics in Early Years Education; Ann Montague-Smith & Alison J Price, 2017
• Teaching Mathematics 3-5; Sue Gifford, 2005
• Messy Mathematics; Juliet Robertson, 2017
• ERO-Early-mathematics-NZ -March-2016; New Zealand Government, 2016
• Mathematical Mindsets; Jo Boaler, 2016
• Teaching and Learning Early Number; Ian Thompson, 2008
• Mary Sheridan’s From Birth to Five Years; Ajay Sharma and Helen Cockerill, 2014
• Children Thinking Mathematically; Department for Children, Education and Families, England, 2009
• Mark Making Matters; Department for Children, Education  and Families, England, 2008

Useful Websites

• Nrich – Early Years
• Maths Through Stories
• Early Math Collective

Useful Video Links

1. Using Maths Talk to Support Learning – The Intentional Adult
2. Intentional Teaching – Extending Children’s Ideas
3. Intentional teaching: Responding to children’s ideas and interests
4. The Power of Comparing
5. Cardinality
6. Sets and Cardinality
7. Five Principles of Counting

Lead Practitioner Attainment/Team Leader/Partner Champions

1. Session 1 – Overview and Framework 24-25
2. Session 2 – Counting and Subitising 24-25
3. Session 3 – Awareness of Number and Mathematical Storytelling 24-25
4. Session 4 – Early Calculation 24-25

 

Lead Practitioner Attainment- Leadership of Change

1. 2023-2024 Session 1 Leadership of Change
2. 2023-2024 Session 2 Leadership of Change

Universal Offer to all Practitioners (Twilight)

1. August2023-Overview and Framework

 

Additional Resources

1. 7 Key Teaching Strategies in Early Mathematics and Numeracy
2. Intentional Interactions
3. Counting a Deceptively Simple Skill- NCETM
4. Example of a Planned Observation of Learners Leading to Improvement – POLLI
5. Blank POLLI
6. Artful Thinking – Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines (I see, I think, I wonder)
7. Microsoft Forms Guide
8. Mathematical Picture Books List
9. Mathematical Book Talk – Blank
10. Subitising progression document
11. Intervention opportunities Maths
12. POLLI Book Talk
13. HGIOP-Template-2023-2024
14. Numeracy Story Planners
15. Self-Reflection Wheel