Recently in Nursery our children have been showing us what confident mathematicians they are. We have been looking closely at small amounts of objects and talking about what we notice, for example the child in the top right picture told us, "It's three! I see a one, and a one... and another one!" While the child in the bottom right played around with arrangements of numicon pieces for a long time before telling us, "two and two and two and one is seven... and six and one is seven too!" What brilliant maths skills for children of just three and four years old! Developing a good understanding of how numbers are made up is a huge part of maths in the early years, and will help our children to solve maths problems with confidence as they get older. Look out for our maths workshop in the New Year to learn more about how we teach maths skills in Nursery and Reception!