During Maths Week Scotland 2024, the UHI STEM Outreach Programme will be launching their new Maths Tales Bags for Early Level learners.
The aim of the bags is to support the development of math concepts through stories. As well as providing the learners with a story and fun resources to complement the story, there are suggested activities and questions to support Early Years staff to explore early maths concepts.
The bags focus on play and early numeracy, with very little prior knowledge or experience necessary. They are accessible to all, designed to be explored by young people in whatever way is best at their age and stage of development.
The Maths Tales Bags aim to:
Increase maths understanding for early level learners.
Boost staff confidence in teaching maths.
Make maths fun and interactive.
In addition to a story book and fun resources to complement the story, there are suggested activities and questions to support early years staff to explore early maths concepts, linked to the Early Level of Curriculum for Excellence.
The Maths Tales Bags can be borrowed for a week at a time and there are three titles available:
Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson and Emily Gravett
The Perfect Fit by Naomi Jones and James Jones
Puffin Peter by Petr Horacek
The bags will be available to borrow after 23 September in Shetland, Orkney, Highlands and Islands, Moray, Argyll and Perth and Kinross.
To book a Maths Tales Bag for your early years setting, please email: stem@uhi.ac.uk
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