Number Activities and Games
A list designed to support the teaching of Number in Key Stages One and Two and Early Years. Including games and activity sheets to practise counting and recognising numbers. These activities may also be used to support older learners still developing a sense of number. Included are the links from the Primary Mathematics blog on using the Soroban.
Land of the Rising Sums
BBC Radio 4 programme where Alex Bellos visits Japan and looks at why the Japanese seem so much better at maths and numbers than many western countries. He looks at differences in language, culture and their passion for using the Soroban to teach number.
The Japan Society
This website includes further information and resources to use in school.
It includes a starter guide to using the Soroban showing how to represent numbers, count and perform addition and subtraction including decimals. There are activity ideas for KS1 and KS2.
KS1 Numeracy - Understanding Place Value
A video which demonstrates a way of learning about tens and hundreds by using a logical language: twenty one becomes "two-ty-one", Listen to parents' reactions and see their own understanding of place value develop so they can apply the same logic at home.
Compare Bears Maths - Book 1
Use colourful bears as way to teaching number recognition, counting to 10 and ordering and comparing numbers. This resource contains teacher's notes for activities and photocopiable worksheets to carry out the activities. The bears are not included!
Counting Activities for Students Aged 3-5
A large range of photocopiable worksheets to aid the teaching of number in Early Years Maths. Children can colour numbers, match the number of spots on butterflies, draw ice creams for the three bears and colour points of stars, to list but a few examples. All sheets are designed to reinforce the concept of number.
Counting Games for Students Aged 3-5
Print and Laminate these games and use them again and again to practise number in Early Years. Games are designed to recognise, compare, count and write numbers.
Counting Activities for Students Aged 5-7
Two crosswords to practise writing numbers in words and digits and an activity where children recognise numbers.
Counting Games for Students Aged 5-7
A game for two players children to take turns to recognise the number of dots on a dice as quickly as possible. The player who gets the most correct answers is the winner.
Counting Activities for Students Aged 7-9
A dot to dot activity where children recognise and sequence numbers from 80 to 104, producing a picture of a house.
Counting Games for Students Aged 7-9
Two games to practise reading and writing 3 and 4 digit numbers.
Calculation
A programme showing three calculation games ideas for primary children. It shows a counting on game for Year One, a multiplication game for Year Three and a code breaking challenge in Year Six. Though these games are used in specific year groups in the programme they could be used across the primary phase depending on the needs of your class.
Counting Activities for Students Aged 9-11
An activity where children identify numbers and match them to a list of given properties including, negative, square, and mixed numbers before deciding which description(s) fit several numbers.
Go Further with Number Skills
A wide range of photocopiable worksheets on number skills which can be used within lessons, as homework activities to consolidate understanding or as an enrichment opportunity. They include sheets on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, factors, multiples and number puzzles. The sheets are suitable for children working at NC levels 3-6 in mathematics.
