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Maths in the garden

* Number: Hopscotch, counting songs, acting out songs such as 'Ten in the bed' using bread crates. Opportunities to write number symbols in play situations. One to one correspondence with numbered trikes and parking bays * Length: Curling and stretching, making long lines with chalk or crates * Capacity: Filling and emptying buckets

* Capacity: Filling and emptying buckets

* Money: Buying tickets at the 'ticket office'

* Time: Using egg timers as a way of sharing time on equipment such as trikes

* Weight: See-saw lifting and pulling at heavy equipment

* Shape: Looking at and classifying leaves

* Position: Using climbing skills to be high, above, and upside down

* Space: Learning to use space on the ground - making pathways with chalk, climbing over large constructions

* Sorting: Leaf shapes, smells of herbs, sounds, colours of flowers

* Mathematical vocabulary Lots of, a few, as big as, long, too small, fit, pattern

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