We know that a good start in the early years matters.
Each year a child spends in an early years setting is a time of rapid learning and development. Mathematics plays a key role in that development and, crucially, mathematical achievement is consistently found to be the strongest predictor of children's overall school achievement and their success in entering the workforce (Asmussen et al. 2018).
Research shows there are a number of factors associated with the development of children’s understanding of numbers in the first five years of life as they use maths concepts to make sense of their world and connect these concepts with their environment and everyday activities.
