Recommended age: 5 years and onwards (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experiences) Purpose: To present the entire structure of addition and to help the child memorise the addition combinations Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present this exercise to the child, once the child has been shown they may work […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Purpose: To help the child associate the categories of the decimal system with their names and symbols and to familiarise the child with the reading of composite numbers. This exercise brings to the child’s awareness that the position of the digit gives it its value and shows that zero in a composite number indicates an […]
Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards Purpose: To show the child that 10 of a category equals one of the next higher category. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must facilitate the exercise with the child, once shown the child may play with an older sibling or another family member. Prerequisites The child must be able to count […]
Recommended Age: 5 years and onwards (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experiences). Purpose: To present the entire structure of addition and to help the child memorise the addition combinations. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present this exercise to the child, once the child has been shown they may work independently. […]
Recommended Age: 4 and ½ to 5 and ½ years Purpose: To consolidate linear counting and to show the child skip counting. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present the exercise to the child first, once shown the child may work independently. Prerequisites The child must be able to recognise the numbers and […]
Recommended Age: 5 years and onwards Purpose: To memorise the essential addition combinations with the possibility of repetition. Level of Parent Involvement: Low, this exercise is short to present, once the child has been shown they may work independently. Prerequisites The child must have had many experienced in addition with the golden beads The child must be […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Purpose: To introduce the quantities 11 to 19 with their names and for the child to see the relationship of the numbers 1 to 9 to the number 10. Level of Parent Involvement: Low, the adult must present the exercise to the child, once modelled the child may continue […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Purpose: To give the symbol and the names of numbers 11-19. Level of Parent Involvement: Low, the adult must present the exercise to the child, once modelled the child may continue the exercise independently. Prerequisites The child must be able to recognise numerals 1-10 The child must be able […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Purpose: Association of the quantity, name and symbol for numbers 11 to 19. Level of Parent Involvement: Low, the adult must present the exercise to the child, once modelled the child may continue the exercise independently. Prerequisites The child must be able to recognise numerals 1-10 The child must […]
In Class Presentation: Recommended Age: 4 years and on (can be younger depending on the child’s experience and skills) Purpose: Verification that the child can sequence numbers 1-10 and correctly match the quantities that correspond to the symbols. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium initially to present the activity then low when the child works independently. Prerequisites Child must […]
Presentation Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experiences). Purpose: To learn the names and the sequence of numbers from 1-10. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present the activity for the first time, once the child has been shown they may revisit the exercise […]
Presentation Recommended Age: 4 years (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experience). Purpose: For the child to associate the concrete quantities with the written symbols and the names for the numbers 1 to 10 and to introduce the sequence of the symbols. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present the […]
Presentation Recommended Age: Around 4 years OR after the child has worked with the number rods and cards. Purpose: Work with the spindle boxes introduces zero as the absence of quantity or the empty set. The Spindle Boxes introduces the concept of numbers as a quantity of separate objects together and reinforces the natural sequence […]
Presentation Recommended Age: 4 years (can be younger depending on the child’s skills and experiences). Purpose: To introduce the child to the symbols for the numbers 1-9 and to prepare the child for writing numerals. Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the adult must present the sandpaper numerals, 3 each time until the child memorises all numerals […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Level of Parent Involvement: Prerequisites The child should have completed ‘Making teen numbers with Lego’ AND ‘paper teen beads and boards’ from the library, and revisited these activities The child must be able to use scissors and be able to cut accurately The child must be able to recognise numerals […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Level of Parent Involvement: Low, the parent must give the child instructions as to how to complete this exercise, but the child may work independently once the instructions have been given with low supervision then use the control sheet to check their work once completed Prerequisites The child should have completed […]
Recommended Age: 4 to 5 years Level of Parent Involvement: Medium to make the materials and during the initial presentation then low-none once the child has been shown and works independently On another day revisit the activity with the child and check to see if they can recall the names of the golden bead quantities, if the […]
Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards Level of Parent Involvement: Medium to make the materials and during the initial presentation then low-none once the child has been shown and works independently On another day revisit the activity with the child and check to see if they can recall the names of the golden bead quantities, if the […]
Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the initial presentation requires the adult to facilitate the exercise, once the child has been shown the child may revisit the activity independently Prerequisites The child must be able to count accurately to ten (one to one correspondence) The child must be able to identify […]
Recommended Age: 4 years and onwards Level of Parent Involvement: Medium, the initial presentation requires the adult to facilitate the exercise, once the child has been shown the child may revisit the activity independently Prerequisites The child must be able to count accurately to ten (one to one correspondence) The child must be able to identify […]
