Maths Progression Document

EYFS – Pre-School EYFS - YR Year 1 Year 2 Next Steps

• Develop fast • Count objects, • Count to and across • Count in steps of 2, 3, • Count from 0 in
recognition of up to 3 actions and sounds 100, forwards and and 5 from 0, and in multiples of 4, 8, 50
objects, without • Subitise backwards, beginning 10s from any and 100; find 10 or
having to count them • Link the number with 0 or 1, or from number, forward and 100 more or less than
individually symbol (numeral) any given number backward a given number
• Recite numbers past with its cardinal • Count, read and write • Recognise the place • Recognise the place
5. number value numbers to 100 in value of each digit in value of each digit in
• Say one number for • Count beyond 10 numerals a two-digit number a three-digit number
each item in order: • Compare numbers • count in multiples of • Identify, represent (hundreds, tens,
1,2,3,4,5. • Understand the ‘one 2, 5 and 10’s and estimate ones)
Number and place value

• Know that the last more than/one less • Identify one more numbers using • Compare and order
number reached than’ relationship and one less different numbers up to 1000
when counting a between consecutive • Identify and representations, • Identify, represent
small set of objects numbers. represent numbers including the number and estimate
tells you how many using objects and line numbers using
there are in total. pictorial • Compare and order different
• Show ‘finger representations numbers from 0 up representations
numbers’ up to 5. including the number to 100; use <, > and = • Read and write
• Link numerals and line, and use the signs numbers up to 1000
amounts language of: equal to, • Read and write in numerals and in
more than, less than numbers to at least words
(fewer), most, least 100 in numerals and • Solve number
• Read and write in words problems and
numbers from 1 to 20 • Use place value and practical problems
in numerals and number facts to solve involving these ideas.
words. problems.
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• Experiment with their • Understand the ‘one • Read, write and • Solve problems with • add and subtract
own symbols and more than/one less interpret mathematical addition and numbers mentally,
marks as well as than’ relationship statements involving subtraction: including:
numerals. between consecutive addition, subtraction, o using concrete objects • a 3-digit number and
• Solve real world numbers. and equals signs and pictorial ones
mathematical problems • Explore the • Represent and use representations • a 3-digit number and
with numbers up to 5. composition of number bonds and o apply knowledge of tens
• Compare quantities numbers to 10. related subtraction mental and written • a 3-digit number and
using language: ‘more • Automatically recall facts within 20 methods hundreds
than’, ‘fewer than’ number bonds for • Add and subtract one- • Recall and use addition • Add and subtract
numbers 0–5 and digit and two-digit and subtraction facts numbers with up to 3
Addition and subtractions

some to 10. numbers to 20, to 20 fluently, and use digits, using formal
• Solve one-step related facts up to 100 written methods of
problems that involve • Add and subtract columnar addition and
addition and numbers using subtraction
subtraction, using concrete objects, • Estimate the answer to
concrete objects and pictorial a calculation
pictorial representations, and • Solve problems,
representations, and mentally, including: including missing
missing number • Show that addition of number problems,
problems such as 7 = ☐ two numbers can be using number facts,
– 9. done in any order and place value,
subtraction of one
number from another
cannot
• Recognise and use the
inverse relationship
between addition and
subtraction and use
this to check
calculations.
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• Solve one-step
Multiplication and division
Year 1 Year 2
• Recall and use
problems involving multiplication and
multiplication and division facts for the 2,
division, by calculating 5 and 10 multiplication
the answer using tables, including
concrete objects, recognising odd and
pictorial even numbers
representations and • Calculate mathematical
arrays with the support statements for
of the teacher. multiplication and
division within the
Next Steps
• Recall and use
multiplication and
division facts for the 3,
4 and 8 multiplication
tables
• Write and calculate
mathematical
statements for
multiplication and
division using the
multiplication tables

multiplication tables that they know,

and write them using
the multiplication (×),
division (÷) and equals
(=) signs
• Show that
multiplication of two
numbers can be done in • Solve problems,
any order
(commutative) and
division of one number
by another cannot
• Solve problems
involving multiplication
and division, using
materials, arrays,
repeated addition,
mental methods, and
multiplication and
division facts, including
problems in contexts.
including for two-digit
numbers times one-
digit numbers, using
mental and progressing
to formal written
methods
including missing
number problems,
involving multiplication
and division, including
positive integer scaling
problems and
correspondence
problems in which n
objects are connected
to m objects.
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• Recognise, find and • Recognise, find, name • Count up and down in
name a half as one of and write fractions tenths; recognise that
two equal parts of an &frac13;, ¼, 2⁄4 and ¾ of tenths arise from
object, shape or quantity a length, shape, set of dividing an object into
• Recognise, find and objects or quantity 10 equal parts and in
name a quarter as one of • Write simple fractions dividing one-digit
four equal parts of an e.g. ½ of 6 = 3 and numbers by 10
object, shape or quantity recognise the • Recognise, find and
equivalence of two write fractions of a
quarters and one half. discrete set of objects:
unit fractions and non-
unit fractions with small
denominators
• Recognise and use
fractions as numbers:
Fractions

unit fractions and non-

unit fractions with small
denominators
• Recognise and show,
using diagrams,
equivalent fractions with
small denominators
• Add and subtract
fractions with the same
denominator within one
whole [for example, 5⁄7 +
1
⁄7 = 6⁄7
• Compare and order unit
fractions with the same
denominator
• Solve problems that
involve all of the above.
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• Make comparisons • Compare length, • Compare, describe and
between objects weight and capacity. solve practical
relating to size, length, problems for: lengths
weight and capacity. and heights
• Begin to describe a mass/weight
sequence of events, real capacity and volume time
or fictional, using words • Measure and begin to
such as ‘first’, ‘then...’ record the following:
lengths and heights
mass/weight
capacity and volume
time
• Recognise and know
Measurements
the value of different
denominations of coins
and notes
• Sequence events in
chronological order
using language
• Recognise and use
language relating to
dates, including days of
the week, weeks,
months and years
• Tell the time to the
hour and half past the
hour and draw the
hands on a clock face to
show these times.
Year 2 Next Steps
• Choose and use • Measure, compare, add
appropriate standard and subtract: lengths
units to estimate and (m/cm/mm); mass
measure length/height, (kg/g); volume/capacity
mass, temperature, (l/ml)
capacity to the nearest • Measure the perimeter
appropriate unit, using of simple 2-D shapes
equipment • Add and subtract
• Compare and order amounts of money to
lengths, mass, give change, using both
volume/capacity and £ and p
record the results using • Tell and write the time
>, < and = from an analogue clock,
• Recognise and use including using Roman
symbols for pounds (£) numerals from I to XII,
and pence (p) and 12-hour and 24-
• Find different hour clocks
combinations of coins • Estimate and read time
that equal the same with increasing
amounts of money accuracy to the nearest
• Solve simple problems minute; record and
in a practical context compare time in terms
involving addition and of seconds, minutes
subtraction of money and hours
• Compare and sequence • Know the number of
intervals of time seconds in a minute
• Tell and write the time and the number of days
to 5 minutes, in each month, year
• Know the number of and leap year
minutes in an hour and • Compare durations of
the number of hours in events
a day.
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• Talk about and • Select, rotate and • Recognise and name • Identify and describe • Draw 2-D shapes and
explore 2D and 3D manipulate shapes to common 2-D and 3-D the properties of 2-D make 3-D shapes
shapes (for example, develop spatial shapes, including: shapes, including the using modelling
circles, rectangles, reasoning skills 2-D shapes [for number of sides and materials; recognise
triangles • Compose and example, rectangles line symmetry in a 3-D shapes in
and cuboids) using decompose shapes (including squares), vertical line different orientations
informal and so that children circles and triangles] • Identify and describe and describe them
mathematical langua recognise a shape 3-D shapes [for the properties of 3-D • Recognise angles as a
ge: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; can have other example, cuboids shapes, including the property of shape or
Geometry- Properties of shape

‘straight’, ‘flat’, shapes within it, just (including cubes), number of edges, a description of a
‘round’ as numbers can pyramids and vertices and faces turn
• Select shapes spheres]. • Identify 2-D shapes • Identify right angles,
appropriately: flat on the surface of 3-D recognise that two
surfaces for building, shapes, [for example, right angles make a
a triangular prism for a circle on a cylinder half-turn, three make
a roof, etc. and a triangle on a three quarters of a
• Combine shapes to pyramid] turn and four a
make new ones – an • Compare and sort complete turn;
arch, a bigger common 2-D and 3-D identify whether
triangle, etc. shapes and everyday angles are greater
objects. than or less than a
right angle
• Identify horizontal
and vertical lines and
pairs of
perpendicular and
parallel lines
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• Understand position • Continue, copy and • Describe position, • Order and arrange
through words alone create repeating direction and combinations of
– for example, “The patterns movement, mathematical
bag is under the including whole, objects in patterns
table,” – half, quarter and and sequences
with no pointing. three-quarter turns. • Use mathematical
Describe a familiar vocabulary to
route. Discuss routes describe position,
Geometry- position and direction

and locations, using direction and

words like ‘in front movement,
of’ and ‘behind’ including movement
• Talk about and in a straight line and
identify the patterns distinguishing
around them. For between rotation as
example: stripes on a turn and in terms
clothes, designs on of right angles for
rugs and wallpaper. quarter, half and
• Use informal three-quarter turns
language like (clockwise and anti-
‘pointy’, ‘spotty’, clockwise).
‘blobs’, etc. Extend
and create ABAB
patterns – stick, leaf,
stick, leaf.
• Notice and correct
an error in a
repeating pattern.