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Recently, the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics has recommended that Early Years practitioners use materials that are available to correlate with the CBeebies show ‘Numberblocks’ to draw upon and build a foundation of mathematical skills that are learnt in the programme (NCETM, 2021).

Gilmore and Spelke reviewed three different experiments regarding infants and children aged 5’s ability to understand addition and subtraction problems, which showed that they solved them in two different ways. This could give indication that children understand inverse relationships of addition and subtraction (Gilmore & Spelke, 2008, p. 933).

It is the responsibility of the practitioner to inform parents about how important their role is in supporting their child’s mathematical learning at home in practical ways, and make parents to feel comfortable with this, for example, talking with them and showing how their children are learning (Bennett & Weidner, 2014, p. 133).
Figure 8:
Numberblocks

Note, from NCETM, by NCETM, 2021, (https://www.ncetm.org.uk/in-the-classroom/early-years/).