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Learning Numbers Through Play

Help your child learn numbers through play activities with this guide for parents by Topmarks.

3-7 year olds
Parents

Number Line

Number Line helps students visualise number sequences and illustrate strategies for counting, comparing or the four operations. Number lines can be easily adapted with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or negative numbers.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Thinking of a Number

Guess the number by revealing the clues on the clouds one by one. This site lends itself to use on an interactive whiteboard.

5-8 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Thinking of a Number

Use inverse operations to work backwards to find the missing number. Useful as a teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Number Line

An interactive number line to support the teaching of number and scales. Useful for teaching negative numbers. It has been designed for use on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Kids and Reading

KidsAndReading contains over 50 articles which focus on encouraging and helping children to read. Find out about different learning styles, classroom methods and problems which can arise with reading.

3-7 year olds
Parents

Shark Numbers

A hundreds, tens and units maths game. Count carefully otherwise the shark will bite your boat.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Bud's Number Garden

Join Bud the bee to explore his magical garden and practise recognising numbers, counting, sequencing and much more! How many creepy crawlies are hiding in the leaf pile? How many eggs are left to hatch?

3-5 year olds
Pupils

Oh No, George!

Read along with this amusing story of George the dog who wants to be good but finds it very difficult.

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Helicopter Rescue

A game which focuses on numbers from up to 10, to up to 100. There are four game modes: Find a Number, Find the Number Between and Count On and Count Back. The counting on and back games reinforce the vocabulary of addition and subtraction.

4-8 year olds
Pupils
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