Free teacher web sites for Foundation Stage topic ‘Mathematical Development’

Lovely simple printable sheet with all the months, each with their own decorative animal and a whole-year sheet. From the Mrs Pancake site.

External link: Animal Months printable

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You are given a row of flowers in pots with differently coloured petals, pot etc. You are asked 'which flower has (eg) a red centre, purple petals' and you click on it. A mouse says well done. A very good start to problem-solving.

External link: Applying rules

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What a great resource, explore the depths of an aquarium, great for counting fish etc.., colours imaginative play, poetry, animals, you name it, creative teachers will be in their sea-crazed element.

External link: Aquarium

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3 activities include - make a shape picture, find shapes in a picture and images of a square, rectangle, circle and triangle.

External link: Basic shapes activities

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We like this simple pattern making game from Crick. Copy the pattern which you are given.

External link: Bead pattern paint

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A simple drag and drop activity teaching big, medium and small, which could be teacher led. Nice and open ended.

External link: Big Medium and Small drag and drop animals

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Click on the bubbles and they burst. Be creative - you can use this so flexibly. eg Can you burst 3 bubbles? Can you burst 1 more than 4 bubbles? etc.... Wonderful. Also great for hand-eye coordination.

External link: Bubbles

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Super resource or encouraging matching and pattern making.

External link: Butterfly paint

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You are given sets of animals. Click on the number which represents the set shown. Easy.

External link: Click on the number

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Colour the super hero by using knowledge of numbers. Words are matched to numerals.

External link: Colour by numbers to 8

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Compare longest to shortest etc.. with this simple activity. Great.

External link: Comparisons

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You are asked to catch a number of fish. Use the net and gather them up. A great resource to support counting.

External link: Count and catch

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Count the spots on the back of the ladybird - then click on the number from a multiple choice selection. Starts from 1-6. Requires the Flash plug-in.

External link: Count and click on the number

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Count the objects to 5 and 6. There's also a super order the numbers activity. Super for Foundation.

External link: Count and order to 5 and 6

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Revises number order to 10 - then shows sets of objects for the number and counts them out.

External link: Count sets of objects to 10

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Match 3 apples to the number 3 and so on. Simple number based activity.

External link: Count sets of objects to 5

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We love this game. Count the bobbing barrels in the sea and type in the number. A super resource that would suit older learners as well as foundation.

External link: Count to 20

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Find the animals by clicking on the scene. Supports counting to ten.

External link: Count to ten

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Count random sets of ants up to a maximum of 25, 50, 75, 100, 150.

External link: Counting ants to 150

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A wonderful Kent education resource which develops counting and discussion about numbers. Great for sharing and division too. Please save the zipped folder to your desktop. Windows XP will allow you to open the folder by double clicking on it.

External link: Counting cakes

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Mixed animals to count. randomly generates numbers under 50.

External link: Counting different animals

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Generate a random number of fish to a maximum of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Then count them - choose to cover the numeral or allow it to be shown. Fish can be dragged easily to aid counting.

External link: Counting fish to 25

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Some super animated counting songs from the Priory woods school. Includes 10 fat sausages, 5 speckled frogs, 5 naughty monkeys, 5 little ducklings.

External link: Counting songs

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We couldn't quite believe this either! Simply locate a picture on the internet and create a super dot to dot. Great for counting, also for fine motor skills. This does take time to set up, so please give yourself plenty of time to look through the resource.

External link: Create your own dot to dot puzzles

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We reckon the snakes and ladders game, dino puzzle and car control game will get a big thumbs up in your classroom.

External link: Direction and counting

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Burst them and sing along - great for counting.

External link: Fat Sausages Sizzling In A Pan

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Click on the apples to find them all. Numbers such as "8" are used. A nice teacher led counting exercise maybe?

External link: Find the apples

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Sing along and enjoy counting the ducks - a wonderful activity for foundation stage.

External link: Five Little Ducks

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Following spoken instructions as "Click on the bumper car that is the same as Mr Bump's car". A basic matching activity really!

External link: Folowing instructions on a bumper car ride

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You are shown a picture - click on how many items you can see. You are given the option of a variety of answers to click on. A great counting resource.

External link: How many?

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The dots need to be joined but who will be able to count to 29! Great for counting and fine motor skills.

External link: Joint the dots

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Create wonderful shapes and displays - change the size, shape and colour. Mesmerising.

External link: Kaleidoscope

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We couldn't resist this lovely open ended game. Drag shapes onto the wall and create a pattern. Great for Foundation.

External link: Make patterns

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Collect objects to match numbers 1-5 or 6-10. A great number work activity.

External link: Match numbers

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Concentrate hard to match the pictures which have very subtle differences! Ideal for shape recognition and observation skills.

External link: Match the pictures

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Drag the correct shapes onto the picture and then make it move. Super resource.

External link: Match the shapes to the picture

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A more advanced - match the shapes activity which will keep them thinking and working hard.

External link: Match the shapes to the picture (advanced)

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Drag the pictures to match the fruit. A great resource to stimulate discussion on fruit, food, colours and numbers.

External link: Matching fruit

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This is a useful teacher tool to introduce the idea of measure and weighing.

External link: Measuring scales

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A simple game where you are given 1,2,3,*,5 and you pick the missing number from a number of options.

External link: Missing number

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Simple Mr Man memory match. Perfect for the whiteboard.

External link: Mr Man matching game

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Help the frog across the river by jumping to the next number in the sequence.

External link: Next highest number game

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Duck shoot encourages the children to count along the number line (numbers are missing to encourage counting to ten) and click on the given number to win.

External link: Number line to ten

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Children shown a numeral - they must click on a list of numerals to match these together. Simple number recognition game.

External link: Number recognition

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Sequence of steps from easy (1 and 2 step) to harder (3 and 4 step). Great.

External link: Number sequences

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Click on the numerals when the words appear.

External link: Number to 10

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Learn about them and also how to write them with this super set of resources.

External link: Numbers 1-9

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Drag the numbers to the correct spots on the clock. A simple activity which displays the time (according to the computer you are using).

External link: Numbers on the clock

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What a lovely site. Simple, useful, fun. Great for Foundation stage.

External link: Odd one out, counting to 5 and sequences

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Order from 1-5, even numbers to 10, odd numbers to 10 and a selection of numbers to 20.

External link: Order numbers activity

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Can you order the following? Days of the Week, Alphabetical Animals, Numbers, Little and Large and Names.

External link: Orderly owl ordering challenge

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Series of activities where you are given the first few shapes in a pattern. You then complete the next few. Not the right activity to START this topic with but perfect for your more capable children.

External link: Pattern sequencing activity

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Even more puzzles to enjoy! Includes a pig, minibeast, rainbow, Christmas holly leaf, holiday ball, moon, flower and clown!

External link: Puzzle selection

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A range of puzzles which will encourage discussions about colour and shape.

External link: Puzzles

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A beautiful activity. Click on the number and a group of objects appear for you to count. All teacher led. Super.

External link: Recognise numbers and count to 9

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A great shape based activity. Create the given picture by resizing, orientating, changing the colour of given shapes. Can also be used for free expression.

External link: Shape challenge

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There is a host of activities to encourage shape vocabulary and exploration on this Priory woods school site.

External link: Shapes activities

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Click on the boxes to make a simple graph. The axis can be changed to suit your requirements. Great for the teacher to use as a demonstration.

External link: Simple block graph

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Ideal for foundation stage. The numbers are presented as spots on the back of ladybirds. Set out in a formal linear style.

External link: Simple subtraction and addition

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Match up the socks. What a job - but someone's got to do it!

External link: Sock pairs - matching colours and designs

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Take sheep from one pen to another - a great visual subtraction activity. The first game starts with 12-6.

External link: Subtracting by taking away

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Includes digits 1-5, 1-10 and 1-15. Also the same categories with words. Share out the sweets ie give teddy 4 sweets from the jar.

External link: Teddy numbers

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A delightful sequencing activity. Sequence the pictures for dressing up, Christmas morning, Easter egg sizes, making a snowman, going to school.

External link: The right order

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