Anyone who has worked with two-year-olds for any length of time knows that they are not just ‘shorter three-year-olds’. With growing numbers of two-year-olds accessing free nursery education places, sometimes in schools, it is crucial that we tap into their interests and support their learning in a developmentally appropriate way, and mathematics is no exception.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Like babies and toddlers, two-year-olds are exploring, investigating and developing their understanding of the world around them. But they are also completely mobile and extremely active. Of course, the difference between individual two-year-olds is enormous and a ‘just-two-year-old’ will behave in a very different way from the same child almost 12 months later. They will, after all, have 50 per cent more life experience.
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