Thinking and Learning About Maths

This highly practical and engaging text includes chapters on:
- why maths is often seen as ‘hard’ and what practitioners can do to help young children be more successful
- exploring shapes, space, measures and patterns
- how to make maths more fun and playful, using games, humour, stories and rhymes
- using music and dance to enhance mathematical understanding
- encouraging children to see the connection between maths and everyday experiences through, for example, sorting, matching and guessing
- creating an environment for mathematical development, indoors and out.

Concluding with a chapter on how practitioners and parents can become more confident in their use of maths, this user-friendly text, packed full of ideas, is essential reading for practitioners in any early years setting.
Students on Early Education courses will also find much here to inspire them.