Ascending Wooden Sorting Tray

When it comes to building foundational maths skills, the Ascending Wooden Sorting Tray is the ultimate resource for EYFS classrooms, nurseries, and outdoor learning spaces. Perfect for fostering basic mathematical skills, this tray is ideal for sorting, counting, and problem-solving activities that make early years maths anything but boring. With its increasing-sized indentations, it’s like the Goldilocks of sorting trays – not too small, not too big, but just right for engaging hands-on exploration.

Get learners connecting with nature as they fill this tray with glass pebbles, buttons or even  for imaginative small-world play.  The tray’s versatility also makes it an excellent teacher resource for introducing patterns, reasoning, and counting concepts. 

Its natural wooden design fits seamlessly into any classroom or outdoor educational setting, bringing an earthy, calming vibe to numeracy games and early years foundation stage maths activities. Plus, at 75cm long, it’s just the right size for collaborative play without dominating your EYFS maths area. 

This isn’t just a numeracy tool; it’s a double agent. Bring it into small world settings alongside peg people, or wooden discs to create imaginative landscapes that secretly sneak in early maths concepts. 

Features

• Durable wooden construction: Crafted from sturdy wood, the Ascending Wooden Sorting Tray provides a natural and eco-friendly alternative to plastic.
• Increasing-sized indentations: With 10 indentations that grow progressively larger, the tray supports counting, sorting, and understanding numerical relationships.
• Dimensions: L75cm x W14cm:  The spacious design accommodates a variety of objects, allowing children to engage in activities such as counting, sorting, and pattern-making. Perfect for use in both group and independent work.
• Versatile for different objects: Use with a range of natural materials like , allowing children to explore mathematical concepts with real-world objects. 

Benefits

• Supports foundational counting skills: The tray’s increasing indentations offer an ideal way for children to practice counting from 1 to 10. By filling each indentation with the appropriate number of objects, children develop numeracy skills.
• Encourages pattern recognition: As children arrange objects into indentations, they begin to notice patterns in quantity and size. 
• Promotes sorting and organisation: The design of the tray encourages children to sort objects by size and quantity, fostering problem-solving skills. 
• Versatile for various teaching strategies: The Ascending Wooden Sorting Tray is ideal for use in a variety of settings, including EYFS numeracy games, small group activities or as part of structured lessons in the early years foundation stage maths curriculum.
• Supports sustainable classroom practices: With its wooden design and compatibility with natural materials, this sorting tray aligns with eco-friendly and sustainable teaching practices.