Mathematical development

This area of children's development covers:

• building up ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big;
• building up ideas about patterns, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects;
• starting to understand that numbers help us to answer questions about how many, how much, how far and how big;
• building up ideas about how to use counting to find out how many;
• being introduced to finding the result of adding more or taking away from the amount we already have.