Nursery World - Hungry dogs

Yvonne Ellis, head of Amersham Children's Centre in Lewisham, spoke to Judith Stevens. Photograph from 'Focus on Planning - effective planning and assessment in the foundation stage' available from LEARN (020 8695 9806) Give a dog a bone for a challenging way to make your maths area more inviting

Give a dog a bone for a challenging way to make your maths area more inviting

Planned learning intentions

In practical activities begin to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting Find one more or one less than a number from one to ten Begin to relate addition to combining two groups of objects and subtraction to 'taking away'

Resources

*Four toy dogs *Four foil dishes (the sort that hold individual cakes are ideal) *Wicker basket *Two dice *Box of small dog chews or bone-shaped dog biscuits *Laminated label *Length of interesting display fabric Step by step

* Develop a mathematics workshop area in which to store all the resources to support children's early mathematical development, including a surface at child height which is used for stimulating interactive displays.

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