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Comparison
This section focuses on supporting children’s comparison skills including estimating and comparing amounts, recognising changes in numbers, estimating numbers of things, showing understanding of the relative size of number and developing a rich vocabulary to support comparison.
- What is Comparison?
  
  In this video, early years maths expert Sue Gifford explains how comparison skills can be developed by comparing collections, comparing numbers and providing opportunities to estimate and predict. There are also some useful ideas on how practitioners can support comparison.
  
  Video Length: 12 minutes
- Resources
- Learning Trajectories- Comparison File
- Poster- Comparison File
- Top Tips- Comparison File
- Activity Ideas
- Classifying With Nature File
- Estimation File
- Rhyme One More File
- Ideas for Babies and Toddlers File
- Articles and Research
- Erikson Institute: The Concept of Comparison with Babies and Toddlers URL
- NCETM: Comparison URL
- NDNA: How Do Children Learn to Compare and How Can Practitioners Help? URL
- NRICH: Counting Collections URL
- NRICH: Sunflower Numbers URL
- Nursery World: Measuring in Comparison URL