Addition Games

This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and model some of the skills and techniques that can be used when adding pairs of numbers by playing different games. The class can practise using concrete equipment to find the matching sums needed to win each game.

Number Pairs Game

Play a range of games to identify and match different pairs of numbers that make matching sums to five, ten and twenty on the game board

Addition Spinning Numbers

Select and record different numbers to five, ten and twenty and identify sums that are one more than each number when playing a math games

Addition Noughts and Crosses

Play games to practise adding one more to different numbers to five, ten and twenty using concrete equipment to model each of the addition calculations needed to win the game

Addition Number Sums

Play a range of maths games to practise counting and adding pairs of different numbers with matching sums to five, ten and twenty

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns