Pattern Blocks
Have fun making your own shapes and tessellating patterns or see if you can complete the pattern puzzles.
Spell Block Academy
A fun spelling game with a wizard theme. Use the provided words or create your own spelling list of words in the Spells book.
Dienes and Coins
Useful place value teaching resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. They cover hundreds, tens and ones and UK money. With some you will need to drag the Dienes blocks to represent the number you want. Please note the decimals section is faulty.
Place Value Basketball
A fun, base ten blocks game with a basketball theme, which helps children to know what each digit represents in either a two or three digit number.
Thinking Blocks Addition and Subtraction Problems
An excellent step by step tool for modelling addition and subtraction problems.
Number Pieces
A great teaching resource which helps children to understand place value. It uses hundreds, tens and ones blocks. It's great for demonstrating decomposition as you can break apart the pieces.
Range Arranger
Build a tower with the blocks in the correct order from smallest to largest. Suitable for Year 2 to Year 6.
Area Perimeter Explorer
Create your own shapes with blocks and explore the relationship between perimeter and area. A useful teaching tool for demonstrating irregular shapes.
Hat Grab
A Curious George game which introduces the idea of data collection and block graphs. It uses the vocabulary of most and least. It is also useful for helping children to follow instructions.
Bank of England Museum
Find out about the work of the Bank of England either through the website or through the free educational presentations offered to pupils of all ages. Useful educational films but they are YouTube so may be blocked in your school.
