Nursery World - Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Mathematics

Judith Stevens explains the changes to Mathematics in the revised EYFS framework

New educational programme

'Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.' (Revised Statutory Framework, paragraph 1.6)

The first thing to note is the name change from Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy to Mathematics. This makes sense, as mathematical development is so much more than numeracy, and in an effective early years environment, there are many opportunities for problem-solving and reasoning across the areas of learning and development, not just in maths.

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