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

Glasgow Counts – Environment Toolkit 

Numeracy Learning Environment Tool

Glasgow Counts – Training Sessions

1. Overview and Framework 24-25
2. Counting and Subitising 24-25
3. Awareness of Number and Mathematical Storytelling 24-25
4. Early Calculation 24-25
5. Pattern, Shape and Space 24-25
6. Measure – Making Comparisons 24-25
7. Money and Time 24-25
8. Sorting-Matching-and-Handling-Data

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 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
• Mark Marking Matters; Department for Children, Education  and Families, England, 2008

Useful Websites

• NRICH
• Maths Through Stories
• Early Math Collective

Useful Video Links

1. Using Maths Talk to Support Learning – The Intentional Adult
2. The Power of Comparing
3. Cardinality
4. Sets and Cardinality
5. Five Principles of Counting

Additional Resources

1. Counting a Deceptively Simple Skill- NCETM
2. Artful Thinking – Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines (I see, I think, I wonder)
3. Mathematical Picture Books List
4. Mathematical Book Talk – Blank
5. Subitising progression document
6. Numeracy Story Planners
7. Self-Reflection Wheel