Exploring and Playing
Exploring 100
Maths Reception
This unit is part of
Reception Longer Maths Blocks Understanding Number and
Reception Maths Planning Understanding Number
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Together, chant the numbers to 100, using both hands to mark the 10s: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! 11, 12 etc.
Number bonds
Put children in pairs: one child is a lion, the other a tiger! Tigers, show me 4 fingers. They calculate how many fingers their partner (the lion) must hold up to show 6 altogether. Repeat, asking tigers to show 0 to 6 fingers. Lions show the complement to 6. Try to build up the pace!
Tigers and lions swap roles. (Use for any pair you want to practise from 5 to 10.)
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing or say the Centipede song (see resources) or learn it here before using with the class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUor8a5ARs
Story
The hundred decker bus by Mike Smith
or
Doggies by Sandra Boynton.
You Will Need
Exploring and playing
Small 1-100 number grids (see resources); colouring pencils; baskets of between 10 and 50 items; sticky notes; large 1 to 100 number grid; access to the book corner; a pack of 10, 20, 30… 100 cards; access to the sand tray/pit
Active Learning
A 1-100 number track, scissors (or use the Numicon 1-100 card number track pieces); 100-bead bar and 10s tags; 100 cubes; 1-100 grid; 10, 20, 30… 100 number cards
Creating and Thinking Critically
A set of two-digit number cards; 1-100 number grid; sticky notes; mini-whiteboards, pens and wipers; at least 100 cubes; a pack of 10, 20, 30… 100 cards