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Mathematics · Preschool

Match and Sort

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions
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Mathematics · Preschool

Small Quantities: One to Three

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions
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Mathematics · Preschool

Counting with One Object per Number

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 30 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions
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Mathematics · Preschool

Compare Small Groups

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 28 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions
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Mathematics · Preschool

Shapes in Our World

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions
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Mathematics · Preschool

Positions and Directions

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions

Mathematics · Preschool

Repeating Patterns

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions

Mathematics · Preschool

Sharing and Combining with Objects

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.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 28 min
  • Quiz: 4 questions