New Generation Mathematics - EYFS

This strand is full of fun lesson plans, activities, number cards, PowerPoint presentations and illustrations. Lessons include:

• Number detectives
• T-shirt numbers
• Gerry the gardener
• Flower number cards
• Flower petal game
• Making theatre tickets
• Party invitation
• Lily the ladybird - Ladybird dots
• Minibeasts
• Stocktaking day
• Estimates
• What’s the time, Mr Wolf?
• Counting in fives and tens
• Numbers around us

Activities in this strand draw upon scenarios within children’s real-life and imaginary experiences. Lesson plans include:

• Mrs Price’s patterns - observing number relationships
• Flags - recreating simple patterns
• Sound patterns - deriving facts from number patterns and relationships
• Sorting the washing - organising, sequencing and clarifying
• Counting in fives and tens
• Hidden treasure - finding one more or one less than a number from 1 to 10
• Fabric shop - developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems
• Greengrocer’s shop - ordering numbers
• Number songs
• Action games
• The garden centre
• Hairdressers
• Recycling - Investigating objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate
• Money, money - counting coins
• Number tasks

PowerPoint presentations, outdoor activities and at home activities are included in the lesson plan.

This strand builds upon the experience of calculating that children have in their everyday lives. Activities aim to challenge children as they solve problems. Sessions include:

• Bus ride
• Football match
• At the supermarket
• Pizza fun
• Ten-pin bowling
• Building walls
• Robots! Robot cubes / Robot clothes
• Floating and sinking
• Out and about
• Coins
• Noah’s ark
• Animal masks
• Counting in fives and tens
• Leaves
• Ella’s party
• Shopping
• Old MacDonald’s farm
• Favourite meals

PowerPoint presentations are included. Activities include outdoor role-play, ICT, and link to learning at home.

This strand involves children in creating and recreating patterns, describing shapes and position. Practical activities allow children to build upon their previous experiences and develop knowledge. Sessions include:

• Denise the decorator
• Shape patterns
• Elmer’s patterns
• Boxes
• Shape walk
• Shapes and sizes
• Butterfly
• Rolling around
• Shapes all around us
• Recognising shapes
• Shapes and faces
• Shape snap cards
• Nursery rhymes
• Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Bear hunt
• My day
• Draw a house

PowerPoint presentations, outdoor activities and at home activities are included in the lesson plan.
 

This strand involves children in comparing quantities, using language associated with time, measuring short periods of time and sequencing events. Sessions include:

• Large and small
• Animal faces
• Long and short
• Titch
• Heavier and lighter
• Great and small
• Times of the day
• Our day
• Days of the week
• Growing up
• What the Hungry Caterpillar ate!
• Seasons

PowerPoint presentations, outdoor activities and at home activities are included in the lesson plan.
 

This strand draws upon imaginative and relevant data-handling scenarios that can be adopted or adapted depending upon the children’s needs and interests and current themes. Sessions include:

• Recording the sorting
• Toy tidy
• The post office
• Healthy food
• Sorting shapes
• Natural world sort
• Our houses
• Sorting tops
• Shape trees
• Insect sort
• Insect picture cards

PowerPoint presentations, outdoor activities and at home activities are included in the lesson plan.