We love mathematics in our ELC, and it is our aim to pass on this enthusiasm to our girls and to ensure that they have an excellent foundation in this curriculum area.

Our Mathematics teaching is informed by the Early Years Learning Framework, the Australian Curriculum and current research about best practice in the early years. Please look below for photos of mathematics in action in our classrooms.

Maths for us is fun! The girls especially love the responsibility of being the UV girl or Number Detective/Number Fairy. They also love exploring shapes on the light table, completing puzzles and copying and continuing patterns. This teaching is intentional, meaning that it is carefully planned with learning intentions and steps to success.

Everyday play in the sandpit is also a wonderful opportunity for exploring mathematics, as is simply opening the girls’ lunchboxes to reveal different quantities and shapes. In these spontaneous moments, it is our role as educators to be ready to intervene and develop the girls’ mathematical skills, knowledge and understanding. Whilst this learning is unintentional, it has been carefully considered for all that it may offer the girls so that we are armed and ready when the opportunity arises.

Regardless of whether the activity is intentional or spontaneous, when mathematics means something to the girls and is interesting, fun or solves a problem, we know that it is more likely to be loved and learned.

We have absolutely no doubt that you are doing an outstanding job of supporting your daughters to develop a love of mathematics at home. However, for this next week, we challenge you to consider the little, even unexpected, ways that your little mathematician encounters mathematics in her daily family life and seize these opportunities for rich learning!