On the website you will find activities, tips, and information to support young children's maths learning during everyday activities. Families help children to learn when they encourage children to compare, notice and describe in everyday language. What is longer, shorter, heavier, lighter, holds more, holds less? Watch a video and try some of the simple activities suggested with your children.
Structure and features
This website contains videos that offer practical ideas to develop the concepts listed below:
- compare and measure
- exploring shapes
- location
- patterns
- time
- number activities including: number words and sequences, more or less, comparing numbers, organising objects to work out totals, using numbers.
Teacher notes
- Video prompts
- Student exploration
- Student discussion.
Teachers might like to select a particular video that matches their curriculum outcomes and direct parents to watch the video with their children. Teachers may use the video as a starting point for a lesson or sequence of lessons.
