The final report of the Williams committee (DCSF, 2008: 68) argues that the revised mathematics Framework (DfES, 2006) "should be reconsidered to achieve a more suitable, user-friendly form." It might also have added that there is not much help and support in it for early years teachers. A much more useful document is the "Practice guidance for the early years foundation stage" booklet (DfES, 2007), as it provides details of the Problem solving reasoning and numeracy (PSRN) area of learning and development from birth to 60+ months. In this article the author examines the approach to teaching number outlined in the two sections "Numbers as labels and for counting" and "Calculating" (pp. 63-69), comparing this approach to that exemplified in the reception section of the original "Framework for teaching mathematics from Reception to Year 6" (DfEE, 1999).