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Mathematics in the EYFS: addition and subtraction - Plus and minus
Nursery World,
29 August 2007
Practical experience using everyday objects is best for understanding adding and subtracting, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner explain.
One way that children learn about addition is through practical experience. In everyday life, we add when we combine two sets of objects, such as opening a packet of six cakes and a packet of four cakes and putting them on a plate. Sometimes we then count to find the total; in general, we find the total mentally. Experience shows children that six cakes and four cakes always make ten cakes. In subtraction too, children learn by practical experience. They learn...
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