--- title: "Reception- Maths- Recognising Different Ways To see 1-5" url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-12-10-reception-maths-recognising-different-ways-to-see-1-5" school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy" --- # Reception- Maths- Recognising Different Ways To see 1-5 ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/Collage_2025-12-09_17_58_42.jpg) 10 December 2025 The Reception children have been actively engaged in a fun, festive activity to deepen their understanding of how to represent the numbers 1 through 5. They were tasked with finding the Christmas objects around the classroom, when a number was shown on the screen they went to find that amount of objects. Once found the children demonstrated the concept of each number in multiple ways, using their fingers or the dice. This hands-on, multi-sensory approach ensures a strong foundation in early number sense, helping them to connect the abstract numeral to concrete quantity and different forms of representation. ![](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/images/news/Collage_2025-12-09_17_58_42.jpg) [Reception](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/reception) [Early Years Foundation Stage](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/early-years-foundation-stage) [Maths](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/maths) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/38d35884-cd64-42de-a5a4-436449f17389.jpg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-12-09-nursery-art-christmas-trees) Previous ### [Nursery - Art - Christmas Trees!](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-12-09-nursery-art-christmas-trees) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/year_2_-_maths.jpg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-12-11-year-2-maths-number-bonds-to-20) Next ### [Year 2 - Maths - Number Bonds to 20](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-12-11-year-2-maths-number-bonds-to-20) ### Academy Life - [News](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news) - [Events](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/events) - [Clubs](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/basc) - [School Council](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/school-council) - [Attendance](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/attendance) - [Charities and Fundrasing](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/charities-and-fundraising) - ![School Games Gold](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Gold_Logo_25-26(1).png) - ![Healthy school](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/healthy_school.png) - ![Picture News](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/6_Years_of_Picture_News.png) - ![AP smilestar](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Screenshot_2026-07-27_10.26.27.png) ##### Location St James Crescent Darwen Lancashire BB3 0EY ##### Contact Us 01254 703260 ##### Stay Connected - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Darwenstjames) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/darwenstjames/) © Copyright 2021–2026 Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)