20 Bead Rekenrek
A great teaching tool for helping young children to understand numbers and learn strategies for addition and subtraction, doubling and halving.
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.
Subtraction using concrete and pictorial strategies
A video lesson which shows how to solve subtraction problems using counters and pictures. It demonstrates how to set up and solve the subtraction questions and gives ideas for a subtraction game at home.
Ten Frames - 1 to 100
This manipulative is great for demonstrating two-digit numbers, ten more or less, one more or less and addition of two digit numbers.
Number Frames
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Useful as a teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
Hit the Button
Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.
Placing Numbers on a Number Line
A versatile number line that can be used at many different levels beginning at numbers 1 to 10 up to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. Place numbers on a number line and see how close you can get.
Numbers to Words Fruit Splat
Match numbers to the fruits to the target number words. There are four levels of difficulty: 1-10, 1-20, 1-100 and 1-1000.
Number Balance
Try addition and multiplication calculations on this number balance by arranging the blue tags. Great for consolidating number bonds to 10. The free play option is useful as a teacher aid for demonstrating the commutative property of multiplication.
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.
