ABSTRACT

Thirty Three Ways to Help with Numeracy equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of numeracy. By providing a range of activities and games which engage children and encourage motivation in the classroom, the book provides ready-to-use exercises that don’t need lengthy forward preparation. Any materials needed are readily available in the classroom or are provided here to photocopy. The activities are designed using a range of different learning styles to:

  • build learners’ confidence and self esteem
  • develop reasoning and thinking about physical number situations
  • encourage discussions
  • explore numbers by doing

The activities can be used with individual children, groups or the whole class. The introduction at the head of each activity describes precisely what it aims to teach the child, followed by clear, concise instructions on how to play each game.

Teachers, SENCos and Teaching Assistants will welcome this helpful resource, which complements Thirty Three Ways to Help with Reading also available from Routledge.

chapter 1|2 pages

ACTIVITY 1 Reach the moon

chapter 2|2 pages

ACTIVITY 2 Arrays of counters

chapter 3|3 pages

ACTIVITY 3 Magic three, four, five

chapter 4|3 pages

ACTIVITY 4 Counting across a square

chapter 5|3 pages

ACTIVITY 5 Journeys on a hundred square

chapter 6|3 pages

ACTIVITY 6 Pyramids 1

chapter 7|5 pages

ACTIVITY 7 Pyramids 2

chapter 8|2 pages

ACTIVITY 8 Ten is greater than one

chapter 9|3 pages

ACTIVITY 9 From counting to number lines

chapter 10|3 pages

ACTIVITY 10 Sequences of counters

chapter 11|2 pages

ACTIVITY 11 The value of money

chapter 13|5 pages

ACTIVITY 13 Place value grids

chapter 14|2 pages

ACTIVITY 14 Complements to ten

chapter 19|3 pages

ACTIVITY 19 Giving change

chapter 20|8 pages

ACTIVITY 20 Make a rectangle

chapter 21|3 pages

ACTIVITY 21 Factor walls

chapter 25|2 pages

ACTIVITY 25 Reordering to find complements

chapter 26|3 pages

ACTIVITY 26 Partitioning

chapter 28|5 pages

ACTIVITY 28 Wheels of time

chapter 29|4 pages

ACTIVITY 29 Fractions of time

chapter 31|3 pages

ACTIVITY 31 Bars of chocolate

chapter 32|3 pages

ACTIVITY 32 Fractions of a number line