Ready to practise recognising numbers and counting? Here’s a great early years education game to play with children if they are in their first year of primary school or want to have a taste of what ...

Head Celia Skilbeck and pupils of Newburn Manor nursery school in Newcastle play at ordering and numbering the shapes of their "maths mural". Photograph: Mark Pinder It looks like a giant child's eye ...

Outdoors is an excellent context for exploring maths. Enabling children to collect their own resources, and use movement as part of the learning, helps them to understand and embed the concepts.