Reception Maths
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Explore Maths
Count, spot patterns and play with numbers to 10.
Mathematics
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For parents and teachers
Reception Maths learning
Pick a topic to find the games available at this level. These activities offer selected practice, not complete curriculum coverage. Use your school’s teaching sequence and your child’s confidence to choose a starting point.
Curriculum connections
Grouped by topic, with the games that offer practice. Each game covers selected examples; use your school’s teaching sequence to choose suitable words and skills.
Number
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5
Practise with:
- How many can you see? — See 3 ladybirds at a glance, without counting.
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Have a deep understanding of numbers to 10, including the composition of each number
Practise with:
- Count to 10 — Count a row of up to 10 animals and match it to its number in this free Reception maths game.
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts
Practise with:
- Make 5 and make 10 — 4 and ?
Numerical Patterns
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally
Practise with:
- Is it a double? — 2 and 2 is a double; 2 and 3 is not.
- Odd or even? — Pair up socks, shoes and gloves to find out whether a number up to 10 is odd or even in this free Reception maths game.
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system
Practise with:
- Count beyond 20 — 19, 20, 21, 22: put numbers in counting order past 20 in this free Reception maths game.