A quick round of the supermarket shelves is enough to remind us how much we need and use maths skills ('99p per 100g', 'four for £3.00', '10 per cent off', 'reduced by a third').
In the revised Early Years Foundation Stage, Mathematics is divided into two aspects:
Each aspect sets out some 'early learning goals' that a child is expected to reach by the end of Reception year, at the age of five:
'Numbers: children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
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