* Saying and using number names when playing with vegetables, packets, coins, etc.
* Reliably counting up items such as buns, cakes, boxes, shoes, potatoes.
* Recognising numerals 1 to 9 on, for example, coins, notes, receipts, price labels and sale signs.
* Using developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems - for example, finding that ten small potatoes fit into a paper bag, investigating how many fit into another bag of the same size and exploring why the total number is always the same.
Calculating
* Beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting - for example, 'If we add three more flowers to the bunch, there will be eight, because five and three make eight.'
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