Kitchen Counting

The home corner is a fantastic place for the children to use appropriate real-life resources to play out their own experiences and to explore and use mathematical ideas.

We are all familiar with activities such as weighing ingredients for cooking, estimating how much water we need to fill pots, pans and kettles, cutting pizza into halves and quarters and counting our coins when shopping.

This term we will be hanging up our washing (ordering number), using timers when cooking, reading and making our own recipes cards and books, filling and emptying tea pots, cups and jugs (capacity), ensuring the table is always set and many more real-life experiences related to mathematical learning.

We welcome any donations of china cups and saucers; egg or sand timers; old telephones or mobile phones; measuring tapes and jugs  and weighing scales.