Page 5 - Numeracy Skills
P. 5
Numeracy Skills Development
The process of development in children involves a need to classify what is going
on around them and to identify patterns in what they experience. Children learn
to fit things together and take them apart, as their spatial skills develop; they
re-arrange and shape objects; they observe and describe things from different
spatial views - this is something that can only be learned through experience.
The manipulation of the concrete 6 Bricks in this section aims to exercise and
consolidate:
• space, spatial relationships, shape, colour, classification
• the awareness & concept of numbers, symbols, operations and relationships
• one-to-one correspondence, seriation, estimation, counting, comparisons
• patterns, functions & algebra
• directions
• measurement
• data handling
• problem solving
Patterning, sequencing and sorting help children to develop a sense of continuity
in their world. Daily mathematics activities with 6 Bricks will help
children to acquire higher order thinking skills and develop
numeracy skills.
“Say! Look at his fingers!
One, two, three …
How many fingers do I see?
One, two, three, four,
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
He has eleven!
Eleven! This is something new.
I wish I had eleven too!”
From Dr Seuss -
“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”
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