Early Years Math Ideas

Educational ideas for Math games, activities, resources, printables and lessons for teaching Maths to Prep, Foundation, Preschool, Pre-Primary, Primary, Elementary and Kindergarten children. Topics here include Number, Measurement, 2D and 3D shapes, addition and subtraction, numeracy, counting, patterns, sorting, classifying, measuring by length, volume, capacity, weight, statistics or chance and data. Wow! So many math concepts for the early years Math Australian Curriculum.

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My Teaching Cupboard - Play Based - Teaching Resources

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Australian Curriculum

Math Numbers

Make Learning Fun

3d Shapes

Easy and Fun Maths Number Activity with Playdough

Discover how Number Playdough Flowers can transform your math lessons through fun hands-on, sensory-rich play activities. Teach number sense, fine motor skills, and foster a love of maths in your early childhood setting and explore ideas, tips, and cross-curricular connections to make learning fun and meaningful in this informative blog post.

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Early Childhood Classrooms

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Teaching Inspiration

Learning Numbers the Fun Way

Get your students excited about learning numbers with my Number Playdough Flowers. They will transform your math lessons through hands-on, sensory-rich activities. You'll easily teach number sense, fine motor skills, and foster a love of maths in your early childhood classroom. Check out this playdough blog post and get ideas, tips, and cross-curricular connections to make number learning fun and meaningful.

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Loose Parts Activities

Loose Parts Play Mats for Learning Numbers to 20

Use these Loose Parts Number Mats with loose parts like stones, counters, play dough or math manipulatives to make setting up your next hands-on math exploration easy and educational. They are perfect for teaching number concepts to 20 through loose parts play.

Learning Intentions

Early Childhood Teacher

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Math Concepts

Numeracy

ACARA Foundation Stage Maths WALT Goals

Use these illustrated ACARA Foundation stage learning intentions to explicitly teach your Prep, Kindergarten, and Preschool students what the Foundation Stage Math learning intentions are. The pictures will act as a visual prompt and help your students remember and better understand their WALT goals.

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Sorting Activities For Kindergarten

Elementary Literacy Activities

Fun Phonics Activities

Centers For Kindergarten

Sorting Games

6 Ways to Use Picture Sorts in Kindergarten

Discover 6 fun picture sorting activities for kindergarten, preschool and first grade. Learn how picture sorts can teach sorting as well as phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and more. Download ready-made picture sorts and picture sorting games to save you time and boost student engagement.

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Kindergarten Geometry

Real Life Pictures

Phonological Awareness Activities

Geometry Lessons

Geometry Activities

Sorting Mats

2D Shape Real Life Pictures

These 2D shape real life picture cards of environmental shapes are perfect for your preschool or kindergarten geometry lessons and activities. This comprehensive resource includes 90 different 2D shape photo cards of everyday 2D shapes for sorting activities, vocabulary development, and more.

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Games For Kindergarten

Frame Printable

ten frame games for kindergarten

Discover the best ten frame activities and games for kindergarten and get my free ten frames printable in this blog post. You’ll easily build early childhood number sense and math skills with these fun and engaging math ten frame activities perfect for kindergarten and preschool.

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Counting Collections

Number Names

Reggio Inspired Classrooms

Teaching Counting

Tower Games

20 Nature Themed Math Number Towers Games

20 nature themed Tower math games to teach counting collections with 1-to-1 correspondence, connecting number names, numerals and quantities. Teach children to solve simple addition problems with these early years math games. Natural world images for your reggio inspired classroom. #numbergames #earlyyearsmath #reggioresources #numbermats #countingmats

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Stem Challenge Cards

High School Art Lesson Plans

Classroom Goals

Stem Challenge

Art Area

Time Prompt Cards — My Teaching Cupboard

Printable math cards as stimulus prompts for children exploring concepts of time. Use them in play based investigation areas to teach time to Prep, year 1, year 2 and year 3. A great STEM challenge to develop creative and critical thinking skills too. #timeactivities #firstgrademath #secondgrademath #thirdgrademath

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Australian Curriculum MONEY GAME

Great maths teaching resource for ACARA - Australian curriculum. Earn and spend is a money game to teach Australian coins and their value. Children will add and subtract money as they work their way around the game. Australian money game for kids. #australianmoneygame #moneygameforkids

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Length and Height Measurement Challenge Cards — My Teaching Cupboard

I designed these math measurement provocation challenge cards as prompts for children learning length and height. I use them at my play dough table when teaching kindergarten measurement and for first grade measurement activities. These math printable cards would also be great STEM challenge cards. Use them in investigations for measurement concepts and to develop creative and critical thinking skills in your play based spaces. #lengthactivities #measurementactivities #playbasedlearning

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Missing Number Cards on Natural Wood Slices — My Teaching Cupboard

Reggio inspired printable missing number cards for eyfs children to place in the missing number 1-10 and 1-20. Teach kindergarten and first grade to complete the counting sequence in both the forwards and backwards counting sequences. I use these nature themed cards in both my Prep and Year 1 classrooms. #missingnumber #eyfs #missingnumberkindergarten #missingnumberfirstgrade #reggio

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Question Prompts

Tuff Spot

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Continuous Provision

Time Prompt Cards — Telling Time

Printable math cards as stimulus prompts for children exploring concepts of time. Use them in play based investigation areas to teach time to Prep, year 1, year 2 and year 3. A great STEM challenge to develop creative and critical thinking skills too. Add them to your math center today!! #timeactivities #firstgrademath #secondgrademath #thirdgrademath

The highly engaging STEAM curriculum develops higher order thinking and problem solving. Download these 30 printable STEAM educational activities. STEAM education in the early years provide opportunities for hands-on learning and integrate seamlessly into the play based classroom.
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Stem Provocations Kindergarten

Construction Area Early Years

STEAM Activities — My Teaching Cupboard

The highly engaging STEAM curriculum develops higher order thinking and problem solving. Download these 30 printable STEAM educational activities. STEAM education in the early years provide opportunities for hands-on learning and integrate seamlessly into the play based classroom. #STEAMeducation #STEMeducationalactivities #STEAMchallenges