Using Numbers on a Number Line
An excellent podcast with ideas for improving children's understanding of number lines and how teachers can draw out pupils' reasoning skills, use of language and the beginning of understanding proportion.
Time Tools - 12 hour to the half hour
Match each digital clock to the matching analogue time. The times are based on the 12 hour clock and are on the half hours. Two separate games are available.
National Archives Education Service
A wonderful national archives online teaching resource structured to tie in with National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5 and designed for teachers. It has a range of original sources including documents, film and sound recordings.
Number Spinners
This resource from Mathsframe generates random numbers using ‘spinners’ with 3, 4, 5 or 6 sides. Up to three spinners can be used in many ways, such as generating addition, multiplication or up to three digit numbers.
Pay using 1 coin
A UK money game where you pay for the items using single value coins. It can help young learners to begin to count money.
Ten Frames
A very versatile teaching tool which has 5, 10, 20 and 100 frames or grids as the facility to make your own custom frame. It could be used for addition especially number bonds, subtraction as well as creating multiplication arrays.
Apple Picking
A missing numbers game which focuses on numbers from 0 to 20. Children are presented with a series of numbers and have to select the apple to find the missing number.
Number Compare
Compare numbers and quantities up to 20, using a strategy such as grouping, subitizing, counting, or a number line. Useful for learning 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equals' terms.
Fishing
Catch the fish and then use the pictogram to count how many of each fish you caught.
4 Ways to make your maths working wall work
This blog post, which is aimed at primary teachers, has some useful tips on how to make effective use of a maths working wall.
