Learning and Development: All about ... Creativity and PSRN

Nursery World, 4 September 2008

Early years practitioners should be alert to the potential in all of their setting's creative provision for developing children's problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN). Linda Pound shows where to find it.

All aspects of creative development can contribute to the development of mathematical understanding, and the links between the two areas of learning are all the greater now that 'Mathematical development' has been renamed 'Problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy' (PSRN) under the EYFS. As 'Creativity and Critical Thinking' (EYFS Principles in Practice 4.3) makes clear, creativity is not just about expressing ideas through the arts. Creativity is about making connections (between...

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