Maths Reception Summer Understanding Number

Counting
Cover all multiples of 10 on a 1-100 grid with sticky notes. Use the grid to support counting to 100, with children using their fingers to match the 1s digits of the numbers. Emphasise numbers ending in 0 and 5.

Number bonds
With children in pairs, ask each pair to show you 10 fingers altogether, so one child might show 6 and the other might show 4. Now ask them to do this in a different way. Repeat.

Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Together, sing a song which counts to 20, e.g. Let's Count to 20 Song For Kids.

Story
Read Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles (an animal counting book) by Christopher Wormell. Together count how many legs, spots, eyes etc are on the animals (up to 20).

Also see:

Handa's Hen by Eileen Browne.

Exploring and playing
Role-play shop, pretend snack items, labels, 10p and 1p coins, purses, red and blue plastic bricks, e.g. Duplo if building inside, or larger outdoor bricks if building outside, three labelled pots of counters in the role-play shop, sticky notes, playdough, boards, counters, 1-20 number track (see resources).

Active Learning
Large wooden/plastic bricks - the sort used outside, flip, straws/lolly sticks, elastic bands, 10 to 20 number cards (see resources), 10 and 1s place value cards (see resources), interlocking cubes.

Creating and Thinking Critically
10p and 1p coins; number shapes, e.g. Numicon; 20-bead strings (10 beads in one colour, 10 in a different colour -rather than groups of 5) or 100-bead strings (using only the first 20 beads), 10 to 20 number cards (see resources), strips of card, double-side sticky tape, clear tape, lots of blue and red counters.

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.

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