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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

Reading Scales

This website has activities involving reading scales. There are six levels of difficulty and the hardest include negative numbers and decimals. The scales include linear, thermometers and a variety of dials.

6-11 year olds
Pupils

Turning Man

Click on the turning man to see him make a quarter turn, half turn, three-quarters turn and whole turn. This resource is a useful teaching aid in full-screen mode, for demonstrating turns on an interactive whiteboard.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, 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

Rhyme Time from Sesame Street

A charming early years game which is great for introducing the idea of rhyming. Children need to find words which rhyme with a given word.

3-5 year olds
Pupils, Parents

Subtracting with Regrouping Lesson

This lesson explains how to work out column subtraction of three-digit numbers using regrouping or borrowing.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Technology: Things We Wear

This site focuses on our need for clothing and how this need is met. It looks at different fabrics and the tools needed to make the clothes.

11-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Make a Chinese Dragon

Here we show you how to make a brightly coloured Chinese Dragon in easy steps. Super activity for Chinese New Year topic.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Chinese Zodiac Story

Read the delightful, illustrated story of the Chinese Zodiac which explains how the years came to be called after animals.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Loop Cards

Loop cards can help to improve your mental maths. Complete the loop against the clock. All types of calculations. You play the game similar to dominoes. NB The 75% section is faulty.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils
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