This week in Maths, Reception have been busy investigating the composition of numbers through a range of fun, practical activities. The children enjoyed sorting animals into fields, making playdough spots for ladybirds and throwing beanbags into hoops. During each investigation, they explored how numbers can be made up of different parts by working out how many were in each group before finding the total altogether.
The children have started learning about part-part-whole models, which is where addition begins. They have been splitting numbers into parts and putting them back together, and there has been lots of talking, sharing ideas and working things out as they went.
