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Mathematics · Preschool
Olly's laundry day and toy box teach the first big ideas of early mathematics: things can be the same, things can go together, and a group can be sorted by a rule. Children match pairs, sort pictures into two groups, say the rule, and find the one that does not belong, then sort real objects at home.
Mathematics · Preschool
With Olly's nest, garden and kitchen, children learn to see one, two and three at a glance, to say the matching number word, and to notice that two cats and two hats are both 'two'. They finish by making their own groups of one, two and three.
Mathematics · Preschool
Share the Picnic: Olly sets out one cup for each guest, and children learn to give one object to each person, to say one number for each thing they touch, and to tell a matched picnic from one where someone is missing out. A bedtime scene and a take-home table-setting job check that the idea works in new places.
Mathematics · Preschool
Who has more boats? Children compare groups of up to five by pairing things one to one and by counting each group, and learn the words more, fewer and the same. A final lesson shows that a longer line or bigger things do not mean more.
Mathematics · Preschool
Olly opens a shape box: circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. Children learn to name each shape whether it is big or small, turned or tilted, count its corners, and then go on a shape hunt to find circles and rectangles in clocks, coins, books and tents.
Mathematics · Preschool
Olly plays hide-and-seek and runs a treasure hunt. Children learn the position words in, on, under and beside, then in front of, behind, above and below, and use them to follow two-step directions in pictures and in a real obstacle path.
Mathematics · Preschool
Sun, moon, sun, moon: children find the part of a pattern that repeats, say what comes next, and build the next pieces themselves. They then copy a pattern with different pictures and spot mistakes, and make a pattern with blocks or body positions at home.
Mathematics · Preschool
Olly and friends share snacks fairly, ducks join each other on the pond, and birds fly away from a branch. Children deal out objects so everyone gets the same, put two small groups together and count them all, and find how many are left when some go away, all with objects and pictures and no symbols.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Olly's dot cards help children see groups of up to five without counting one by one: dice-like patterns, fingers and scattered groups. Children learn to see small groups inside bigger ones (four is two and two) and to match each group to its numeral from 1 to 5.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Children count up to ten things in lines, circles and scattered groups without losing track, count out exactly the number Olly asks for from a bigger pile, and connect the numerals 1 to 10 to groups and to their order on a number path.
Mathematics · Pre-K
An empty nest has zero eggs. Children learn that zero means none, compare groups up to ten by pairing and by counting, and find one more and one fewer by moving along a number path from 0 to 10.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Bunnies hop together and birds fly away. Children act out and solve put-together and take-away stories with totals up to ten, and learn that every story has a first, a then and a now, ending with more or fewer than it started. No plus or minus signs yet: just objects, pictures and words.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Olly builds with shape tiles. Children describe triangles, squares, rectangles, circles and hexagons by their sides and corners, put shapes together to make new shapes (two triangles make a square), and compare shapes by size, sides and corners. A first look at solid shapes sorts the ones that roll from the ones that stack.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Patterns grow up: apple, apple, banana; sun, moon, star; cat, dog, dog. Children find the part that repeats in longer patterns, extend them by several pieces, and rebuild the same pattern with new pictures and body positions, spotting and fixing mistakes along the way.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Which tower is taller? Which jar holds more? Children compare lengths and heights by lining up ends, put three things in order from shortest to tallest, and compare how much containers hold by pouring from one to another, discovering that taller does not always mean holds more.
Mathematics · Pre-K
Olly's class wants to know which fruit is the favourite. Children sort collections into groups, count each group, show the counts as a picture graph or bar graph, and read the graph to find the most, the fewest and how many are in a group.
