Play Matters: Supplementary Guide for Mathematical Play (Birth–5)
This brand-new supplementary guide, co-created with the Early Childhood Mathematics Group, shows how early mathematical thinking grows best through play. Packed with research-informed insights, real examples, and practical strategies, it helps practitioners and caregivers notice, nurture, and extend children’s mathematical ideas in the flow of everyday play. From fair shares at snack time to spatial reasoning outdoors, this guide reframes mathematics as joyful, creative, social and woven through childhood, not a formal subject to “teach later”.
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Bradbury, A., Wright, D., Boardman, K., Thompson, P., Jarvis, P., Cowley, S., Veale, V., Wayne, D., Swailes, R., Scollan, A., Grimmer, T., & Renshaw, K. (2025) Play Matters. Available at: https://www.early-years-reviews.com/play-matters Accessed [todays date]
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