How can we enable playful pathways in mathematics?
• Teaching activity
• Guided Play
• Continuous provision
‘Mathematising’ the environment
Counting corner Block play zone
Mathematical manipulatives
Estimation station
Voting station
Number den
Playful pathways will…
• raise a generation of confident mathematical thinkers.
• show children there is more than one way to solve a problem.
• allow children to take the tasks in a different way than we had planned.
• give children the time and space to play with concepts.
The Builder’s Yard
• Pattern Fish by Trudi Harris – video Pattern Fish
• The Builder's Yard – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mwqo7UMEA
Next steps
Getting started with play-based learning in early years https://cambrid.ge/play-based-learning-getting-started Explore Cambridge
www.cambridgeinternational.org/earlyyears
How role play encourages conversation and brings in mathematics and writing opportunities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yb8jJpm-k8
