What’s included in the Number Bonds to 5 Provision Enhancement Prompts and why is it useful?

EYFS Number Bonds to 5 Provision Enhancement Prompts is a set of challenge cards for practising number bonds to 5 across your continuous provision. It covers these areas: Maths, Construction/STEM, Creative, Fine Motor, Home Corner, Malleable, Outdoor, Sand, Small World, Snack, Tuff Tray, Water and Writing.

Challenge Cards

Each card has a short challenge and a clear picture, such as “Use the number pieces to make 5.” or “Throw 5 beanbags into 2 hoops.”

Advice and Ideas

Next to each pair of cards, the Advice and Ideas panel tells adults how to set up the activity and what to ask, from talking about zero as a number to sharing five pieces of fruit with a friend.

Example Activities

• Malleable: find the cubes hidden in jelly to solve 2 + 3, 1 + 4 and 0 + 5
• Home Corner: share five pieces of fruit with a friend in different ways
• Construction/STEM: pick up paperclips with a magnet and work out how many more make five

How do our Provision Enhancement Prompts work?

Print the pages, cut out the challenge cards for the areas you have, and put each one in a frame in the matching provision area. Then set out the resources listed in the Advice and Ideas panel. The cards can stay out all week, so children choose when to have a go, and any adult can use the questions to extend the learning.

Children can use the picture to work out what to do, or have the challenge read to them, and Reception children can have a go at reading the words themselves.

Most areas have two challenges, A and B, giving children two ways into the same learning. Put both out together or swap them over during the week.

The snack card needs adult supervision.

These cards work best alongside your teaching of number bonds to 5. You could use them with our other EYFS number bonds resources, so children meet the same learning in adult-led sessions and in their play.