Maths Talk with Infants and Toddlers
An inspiring resource for learning numeracy
Make the mathematics that occurs in daily life visible to children through maths talk
Numeracy Focus: Using proportional reasoning
This resource describes valuable teaching opportunities with young children to support their early understandings of more and less.
During a shared meal time, an adult uses numeracy language to describe and compare amounts, saying “It’s all gone, you ate it all.”
Stage: Birth to Level 2
This resource supports:
Integrated teaching and learning approach
- Adult-led learning
HITS
- Multiple exposures
VEYLDF Practice Principles
- Respectful and Responsive Relationships
VEYLDF Learning Outcomes
- Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity – Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
- Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners. Children transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another
Cross-curricular
- English
Audience
- Families
Teaching and Learning Cycle:
- Act/Do
- Reflect/Review
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Reflective Prompt
What other moments present themselves throughout the day that provide opportunities for you to support young children to notice and compare amounts?
Reflective Prompt
What other moments present themselves throughout the day that provide opportunities for you to support young children to notice and compare amounts?