In a paper published today, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Maths and Numeracy, says many early years practitioners are ‘mathematically under-qualified and unconfident’.
‘Too many early years settings fail to provide young children with a good start to their maths education,’ it says, while ‘main problems’ are ‘the attitudes, mathematical confidence and understanding of those who work with young children’.
The APPG calls for better training for early years practitioners, including learning about brain development in number ability.
More than a quarter (28%) of children in England failed to achieve the expected level in maths at the end of the early years foundation stage last year.
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