This week is Maths Week! We have been learning all about Number and the application of number in Reception. We were set a Crystal Maze style challenge for the week where each day we ‘visit’ a different country and complete a challenge involving a physical puzzle, mystery puzzle, skill puzzle and a practical puzzle. Take a look at our learning below, don’t forget to comment on your learning for this week in the comments section below.

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TUESDAY – GREECE.

PHYSICAL PUZZLE – To count actions and movements.

The children held a ‘mini olympics’ where they were challenged to see how many jumps, star jumps, knee raises etc they could do in 10 seconds. They counted each action carefully developing their counting skills beyond 5.

PRACTICAL PUZZLE – To recognise and match number shapes to 10.

The children used number shapes to match with outlines to create a superhero ‘city scape’.

MYSTERY PUZZLE – To count accurately.

As our country today was Greece the children were challenged to count the stripes on the Greek flag. They counted how many blue stripes there are and how many white stripes.

SKILL PUZZLE – To touch count accurately.

The children were challenged to use tweezers to place pom-poms onto their superhero. They had 1 minute to do this and afterwards had to use their touch counting skills to say how many they had.

WEDNESDAY – EGYPT.

PHYSICAL PUZZLE – To read numerals and count actions.

As explorers today the children were left a map! They followed the map reading numerals to 5 and counted actions as directed on the map.

The explorers were set a challenge to see what numbers they could find in our school environment.

Skills puzzle- to recognise and order numbers 1-5.
The explorers 🧭 were challenged to dig numbers in the sand. They worked together to order each numeral correctly.

Thursday- China

Physical – To develop 1 to 1 correspondence by counting carefully. The children were challenged to see how many noodles they can put in a bowl in 1 minute using tweezers.

Practical – To recognise and form the number 2- Children used different materials to create lucky number 2.

Day 4- China

Physical- to match quantity to numeral. Children were tasked to create their own diva lamps using playdough.

Mystery – To match number shape and recognise numbers

Skill – To match quantity to numeral

Practical – To touch count accurately- children were tasked to count objects relating to Diwali and write how many of each object they counted.