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Learning and Development: Space - Mathematics in the early years -Up and down
Nursery World,
18 October 2007
Where is it? Develop children's mathematical thinking by giving them plenty of opportunities to talk about positioning with resources and activities around the setting, suggested by Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner.
Photos at Oak Tree Nursery, Ilfracombe, Devon by Jim Wileman. The whereabouts of an object is always described in relation to something else: the pan is on the stove, the school is next to the shops, the balloon is above the tree. Instructions on how to get somewhere include direction words: left, right, up, down. Instructions on how far to go include measuring words: one step, a minute's walk,...
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