Thank you for clarifying. Always happy to talk with your LLMEs. Something that came out of the recent spatial day at Uni of Surrey with @ekfarran.bsky.social was that the teaching of early number needed ‘spatialising’. So that folks don’t think it’s two separate things.

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Giving every child the best start is about the most age and developmentally appropriate start. There’s now a plethora of international research pointing to the importance of young children’s spatial awareness as more influential on later mathematical (and wider) success, over number. >>

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>> 2/ The ECMG has a thorough and developmentally appropriate ‘toolkit’ for developing spatial thinking from birth to 8, all **free** here: earlymaths.org/spatial-reas... Please explore!

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3️⃣ 2025 is the sum of the first nine cube numbers – The cubes of 1 to 9 add up perfectly to 2025! 🧮💡 4️⃣ 2025 is the sum of two consecutive triangular numbers – The 44th triangular number (990) + the 45th triangular number (1035) = 2025! 🔺 3/3

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1️⃣ 2025 = (20 + 25)² – A neat square, proving how numbers can come together in surprising ways! ✨ 2️⃣ 2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² – The sum of the first 9 numbers, squared, equals 2025! 🎲 2/3

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