Sorting items by different properties and comparing them is a skill that you can observe the children learning to use with increasing sophistication, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner demonstrate.

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 ...

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