DumDum Maths
Everything Reception learns, on one page.
All 148 skills, in the order a UK primary teaches them. Tap any one for its own page: what your child actually does, and the real question.
Match, sort and compare
Autumn term · 8 skills
Before number: noticing what is the same, what is different, and which group has more.
Comparing size, mass and capacity
Autumn term · 6 skills
The measure words a child meets long before they measure anything.
Numbers 1, 2 and 3
Autumn term · 24 skills
White Rose Autumn Block 3. Three numbers, six steps — the pattern the rest of the year repeats.
- ✓ Find 1
- ✓ Find 2
- ✓ Find 3
- ✓ Say how many without counting — 1 to 3
- ✓ Say how many in a different arrangement — 1 to 3
- ✓ Say how many on fingers — 1 to 3
- ✓ Put counters on a ten frame — 1 to 3
- ✓ Show it on your fingers — 1 to 3
- ✓ Count out that many — 1 to 3
- ✓ Match the number to the group — 1 to 3
- ✓ Match the group to the number — 1 to 3
- ✓ Count dots — 1 to 3
- ✓ Count things in a line — 1 to 3
- ★ Count things in any arrangement — 1 to 3
- ✓ One more — within 3
- ✓ One less — within 3
- ★ Which is one more? — within 3
- ✓ Make 1 with two groups
- ✓ Make 2 with two groups
- ✓ Make 3 with two groups
- ✓ Find the missing part — up to 3
- ★ All the ways to make 3
- ✓ More, fewer or the same — 1 to 3
- ★ Put the numbers in order — 1 to 3
Numbers 4 and 5
Spring term · 22 skills
White Rose 'Alive in 5!'. Five is the first number a ten frame makes obvious.
- ✓ Find 4
- ✓ Find 5
- ✓ Say how many without counting — 4 to 5
- ✓ Say how many in a different arrangement — 4 to 5
- ✓ Say how many on fingers — 4 to 5
- ✓ Put counters on a ten frame — 4 to 5
- ✓ Show it on your fingers — 4 to 5
- ✓ Count out that many — 4 to 5
- ✓ Match the number to the group — 4 to 5
- ✓ Match the group to the number — 4 to 5
- ✓ Count dots — 4 to 5
- ✓ Count things in a line — 4 to 5
- ★ Count things in any arrangement — 4 to 5
- ✓ One more — within 5
- ✓ One less — within 5
- ★ Which is one more? — within 5
- ✓ Make 4 with two groups
- ✓ Make 5 with two groups
- ✓ Find the missing part — up to 5
- ★ All the ways to make 5
- ✓ More, fewer or the same — 4 to 5
- ★ Put the numbers in order — 4 to 5
Numbers 6, 7 and 8
Spring term · 25 skills
White Rose 'Growing 6, 7, 8'. Now every number is seen as 'five and some more'.
- ✓ Find 6
- ✓ Find 7
- ✓ Find 8
- ✓ Say how many without counting — 6 to 8
- ✓ Say how many in a different arrangement — 6 to 8
- ✓ Say how many on fingers — 6 to 8
- ★ See it as five and some more — 6 to 8
- ✓ Put counters on a ten frame — 6 to 8
- ✓ Show it on your fingers — 6 to 8
- ✓ Count out that many — 6 to 8
- ✓ Match the number to the group — 6 to 8
- ✓ Match the group to the number — 6 to 8
- ✓ Count dots — 6 to 8
- ✓ Count things in a line — 6 to 8
- ★ Count things in any arrangement — 6 to 8
- ✓ One more — within 8
- ✓ One less — within 8
- ★ Which is one more? — within 8
- ✓ Make 6 with two groups
- ✓ Make 7 with two groups
- ✓ Make 8 with two groups
- ✓ Find the missing part — up to 8
- ★ All the ways to make 8
- ✓ More, fewer or the same — 6 to 8
- ★ Put the numbers in order — 6 to 8
Numbers 9 and 10
Spring term · 23 skills
White Rose 'Building 9 and 10'. The full ten frame, and the bonds the ELG asks for.
- ✓ Find 9
- ✓ Find 10
- ✓ Say how many without counting — 9 to 10
- ✓ Say how many in a different arrangement — 9 to 10
- ✓ Say how many on fingers — 9 to 10
- ★ See it as five and some more — 9 to 10
- ✓ Put counters on a ten frame — 9 to 10
- ✓ Show it on your fingers — 9 to 10
- ✓ Count out that many — 9 to 10
- ✓ Match the number to the group — 9 to 10
- ✓ Match the group to the number — 9 to 10
- ✓ Count dots — 9 to 10
- ✓ Count things in a line — 9 to 10
- ★ Count things in any arrangement — 9 to 10
- ✓ One more — within 10
- ✓ One less — within 10
- ★ Which is one more? — within 10
- ✓ Make 9 with two groups
- ✓ Make 10 with two groups
- ✓ Find the missing part — up to 10
- ★ All the ways to make 10
- ✓ More, fewer or the same — 9 to 10
- ★ Put the numbers in order — 9 to 10
To 20 and beyond
Summer term · 8 skills
White Rose 'To 20 and beyond'. The ELG asks a child to count beyond 20 and hear the pattern.
How many now?
Summer term · 7 skills
First addition and subtraction, but always as a change to a group in front of the child.
Sharing and grouping
Summer term · 7 skills
The ELG's 'how quantities can be distributed equally', plus doubles and odds and evens.
Patterns
Summer term · 6 skills
Copying, continuing and creating repeating patterns — the second half of the Numerical Patterns ELG.
Shape and space
Summer term · 8 skills
2D and 3D shapes, and the position words a child needs before they can follow an instruction.
Order and time
Summer term · 4 skills
First, next, last, and the shape of a day.