A course for Early Years practitioners and mathematics subject leaders

Stories, both familiar and less well known, are an excellent starting point for problem solving, reasoning and numeracy and link with the other areas of learning and development. There are lots of wonderful counting books around and many other books where the maths is easily identifiable.

On this course you will:

• look more closely at familiar, high-quality fiction and find the maths in unexpected places
• consider maths from traditional tales
• evaluate some number books
• explore the possibilities for developing maths experiences from stories
• plan some role play experiences using books as starting points