Many children quickly learn how to say the numbers from 0 to 10, but this is not quite the same as being able to count a number of objects. Whether it’s counting fish, footballs or planes, we have a great set of maths worksheets which are perfect to supplement all those opportunities there are in the home for counting sets of objects.

This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on Counting up to 10

Whether it’s spoons, teddies or balloons, there’s plenty of opportunity to work out ‘What’s smaller’.
This is another great set of pages introducing measurement to young children. To start with standard units are not used, but it is very important to get children to compare two things, saying which is bigger, smaller, heavier etc.

This is the latest in our great range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. With new worksheets and maths games coming online every week, why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Maths Worksheets on ‘Smaller’.

Children love number and counting rhymes. This is just one of our enjoyable number rhymes, as five little ducks go out with their mother. One at a time they seem to disappear until there are none left. Great for practising counting down in ones.

There are also counting and writing numbers up to 5 worksheets with this resource.

This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on Number Rhymes

Counting back is the preliminary stage before subtracting ‘in your head’. These worksheets ask your child to count back from numbers up to 20. At first they will probably use fingers or other maths material to count back, but as they gain confidence they will begin to use mental methods and begin to know the answers, ‘ off by heart’.

This is the latest in our great range of fun maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. With new worksheets and maths games for young children coming online every week, why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Maths Worksheets on Counting Back 3, 4, 5 or 6.

‘It’s not fair, he’s got more than me!’ If your child has brothers or sisters he/she is probably already familiar with the terms ‘more than’ and ‘less than’. But there’s no harm in some extra practice with these penguins! All just with numbers up to 5.

This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on using ‘More than’.

Here are four great maths worksheets for those children who are confident with counting in ones and are ready to move on to counting up in tens from a teen number and then any 2-digit number.
Whilst the four pages concentrate on the same skill, they are all very different.
Don’t be surprised if your child uses fingers to help them with this. For example, counting on 3 tens from 21, many children will start at 21, hold one finger up for 31, 2 for 41 etc.

Go to our Worksheets on Counting On in Tens

There is no better way to help children with their maths than for an adult to sit down with them and work/play maths games together. This is one of our great games that you can play with your children to help them with their maths. You need a print out of the triangular board, a counter or coin and a score card and pencil. A simple, fun game for two players, where you try to make a total of 10 on the board. This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on Maths Board Games

Something which parents of young children will be disappointed to hear is that class sizes in infant classes are on the rise. 30 seems to be the accepted limit for classes, but 1.7% are over this limit and over 10 000 children are being taught in ‘unlawfully large classes’.

However, this is still a huge drop in numbers compared to when Labour came to power, and infant classes are very different places compared to just 20 years ago. There are far more Teacher Assistants and adults helping in the classroom so it may be that a simple class size is not the most appropriate measurement to use.

Learning the correct terms to compare things is vital in the Early Years and one of the most important aspects of measurement. Here we have four more great pages on maths vocabulary for young children, looking at bigger and biggest. You can find these in our Shapes and Measures section. Pick out the biggest frog and find the bigger boot! Talk about the pictures and use the terms as often as possible around the home.
Of course bigger is a comparative word and is used when comparing just two objects, whilst biggest is used when there are more than two (superlative).

Go to our resources on Bigger and Biggest

This is a super maths game to introduce numbers up to 5 for young children. Our happy little aliens need to find the correct numbers on the craters so that they get home safely. Your child can help them by sliding them into the right craters. Great for children just starting off with recognising numbers up to 5. This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths games which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on Matching and Counting