Activities and Resources

Northern Ireland: Maths: Foundation Stage: Patterns and Relationships

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	Identifying and matching pairs of pictures in a well known pelmanism game.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Patterns & Relationships: Match objects in real contexts.
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	Help Delia Drip make patterns on the seabed. An extension to What Comes Next?		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Patterns & Relationships: continue a simple pattern. Key Stage 1: Processes: - select the materials and mathematics appropriate for a task - develop different approaches to problem solving Patterns, Relationships & Sequences in Number: - copy, continue and devise repeating patterns
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	Identifying and matching pairs of pictures.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Patterns & Relationships: match objects in real contexts
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	Ordering items of clothing in the order you put them on.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage - Sorting: sort random collections of natural, scrap and commercial materials in a range of ways and talk about the sorting. - Number: develop an understanding of ordinal numbers through practical activities. - Patterns & Relationships: Match objects in real contexts.
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	Help the Yaboos by sorting out the things they find there. This exercise is aimed to teach early years children about patterns and sequencing.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: Foundation Stage: Patterns & Relationships: continue a simple pattern. Key Stage 1: Processes: - select the materials and mathematics appropriate for a task - develop different approaches to problem solving Patterns, Relationships & Sequences in Number: - copy, continue and devise repeating patterns
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