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Well-being: Children will

develop competence in
mathematical concepts
and enjoy using them in
daily life

For Term 2, 2015

Mathematical Concepts
of Young Children

Belonging: Children will

learn to use numbers
and ordering the
environment in patterns
and relationships.

Contribution: Children
will develop
mathematical problem
solving strategies e.g.
dividing resources

Exploration: Children
will explore their world,
find reasons to calculate,
estimate, and measure

Islamic: Islam emphasizes

reading and gaining
knowledge. Hadith: The
best amongst you is the
one who learns the Quran
and teaches it (Bukhari)

Communication: Children
have fun with numbers
and begin to understand
mathematical ways

Learning Intentions and Outcomes for Under

Two Children
Mathematical concepts of young children

Play-Children will develop understanding of numbers by

finger plays, number rhymes, songs and stories,

Communicating mathematical ideas- number of objects, i.e.
two shoes, two eyes, four wheels, five fingers, etc.
Activities for exploring objects e.g. fingers, toes, ears, nose
etc.
Opportunities to recognize patterns/make patterns
Visualizing and Imagining- One to one corresponding e.g.
two feet- two shoes
Matching and grouping things
Locating/positioning- Putting and fitting things in right places
and in right order.

Learning Outcomes for Over Two Children

Mathematical concepts of young children

Children will develop

Mathematical concepts e.g. volume, quantity, measurement,
classify, match, patterns, geometric shapes etc.
Understanding symbols and representing- Concepts of adding and
subtracting, weight, shape, volume.
Play-develop problem solving skills
Positioning/grouping/classifying- i.e. sense of order
Communicating mathematical ideas- telephone numbers, car
number plates, house numbers, birth dates, coins, time
Positioning/grouping/classifying-One to one correspondence e.g.
three people- three plates
Recognize numerals 1-10/20 and arrange those in sequence.
Estimating and predicting- i.e. match numbers to same amount of
objects and pictures
Reasoning/comparing data- e.g. big-bigger-biggest,

Weekly Plan,
11- 15 April, 2015
Math concepts of young children
Monday
Matching activity - Use numerical cards
with beads/buttons, children will arrange
numeral cards in sequence and match with
same quantity of buttons.
Play game- children will take turns to pick
up a number card without looking, then
will get the same amount of objects or
marbles from another container.

Tuesday
Measuring -Make play dough with
children, let the children help measure
flour, salt, oil and only a few drops of
food colouring.
Distinguish- use different sized ribbons,
teach children how to distinguish the
length of the ribbons e.g. big-biggerbiggest, small- smaller- smallest etc.

U/2 - post variety of shape into the shape

box
Thursday
Counting- Make number cards, children
will pick up one without looking clip/fix
correct number of paper clip into each
piece of cardboard.
Practice writing - using worksheet of
numbers, Some children might need
dotted lined numbers first then write
without dotted lined numbers.

U/2 place the colored wooden circles

into the stick
Friday
Sorting- let the children sort out the
bottle tops according to color and sizes,
also they can sort out variety of clothes
pegs.

U/2 counting fingers and toes

Phy.Ed. Game play using the new

resources- jump from one shape to
another and sing the shape song and the
name of the color,Red sq. what do you
see..?
U/2 build up tower with wooden
blocks, count every time add up one
more.

Wednesday
Patterns make patterns when making
necklaces with different color beads.
Baking activity we will make muffins,
children will involved themselves with
preparation, discuss about the amount of
ingredients we are using, how many
muffins are we going to make, will that be
enough for everyone?
U/2 Nursery rhymes and finger plays
involved numbers

Programme Evaluation Term 2, 2015

Mathematical concepts of young children
Teachers Role Teachers have been using more and variety of mathematical activities. Teachers got more ideas of math concepts from all the
workshops they attended. Helen the math workshop facilitator helped us with resources and lots of reading materials. We made up lots of new
mathematical resources such as 10 coloured shapes, butterflies, frogs; birds etc are most popular among our children.

Environment- The classroom environment was visually rich with lots of math activities; especially the wall poster Teacher Rosy arranged showing
children involved with mathematical activities was and still is popular. Overall our classroom environment provides a wide range of open ended
mathematical resources based upon all the mathematical domains. We also bought lots of new resources eg. marbles, poker chips etc.

Children - Everyday our children love to engage on variety of math activities especially from Montessori shelf, art corner, puzzles etc. Children are
communicating more mathematical ideas with each other and with teachers. They are more interested to learn and involve in new mathematical
activities. Teachers also written lots of learning stories about children engaged in numeracy activities.

Parents/Whanau Parents are showing interest and working alongside with teachers to teach their children more numeracy skills. Some parents
helped with mathematical art resources such as boxes, egg cartoons etc.

Director/Management- Director provided support for teachers to make resources. The director also provided a wide range of materials to support
with the mathematical interest of the children.

What could happen next?

This is an ongoing learning. Math is everywhere. We will continue to provide children with opportunities to build on strong numeracy skills possible. We
will make sure that our environment is rich with mathematics teaching and learning in our programme. Children will continue learning mathematical
concepts of matching, ordering, sorting, classifying, grouping, patterning, estimating, locating, communicating mathematical ideas as well as they will be
able to recognize numbers.
Done by Teacher Rosy

Well-being: Children will

develop competence in
mathematical concepts
and enjoy using them in
daily life

For Term 2, 2015

Mathematical Concepts
of Young Children

Belonging: Children will

learn to use numbers
and ordering the
environment in patterns
and relationships.

Contribution: Children
will develop
mathematical problem
solving strategies e.g.
dividing resources

Exploration: Children
will explore their world,
find reasons to calculate,
estimate, and measure

Islamic: Islam emphasizes

reading and gaining
knowledge. Hadith: The
best amongst you is the
one who learns the Quran
and teaches it (Bukhari)

Communication: Children
have fun with numbers
and begin to understand
mathematical ways