Numeracy Made Fun
Primary teaching resources for Maths bring alive what can be a dry topic. A solid understanding of maths is a crucial tool for girls and boys to learn, and the quicker they get a good grasp of it the better. Time was teachers would spend countless hours devising and creating resources with which to make maths an enjoyable visual experience. These days, however, there are a number of primary teaching resources available to buy which engage with small children on a strong visual level.
Children's books have lots of pictures because children understand pictures better than they do words or numbers. That’s why the best primary teaching resources have a strong visual element. Easily recognisable images children can relate to are used to teach numeracy in a fun manner.
Money is taught with cards showing mathematical sweets; each sweet is an individual unit, boxes of sweets stand for tens and jars of sweets symbolise hundreds. It’s a whole lot less dry than dealing with pence pounds. The majority of children of primary school age will not have managed a lot of cash, but they may be only too familiar with counting out and eying up sweets. These sweet cards were the first, but there are now a variety of Place Value card sets, using diverse enjoyable metaphors to teach practical mathematical skills.
Fractions are shown through commonly divisible items like pizzas, pies, puddings and tarts. Several other sets allow the same topics to be taught but with marginally different focus, in order that children can separate and recognise the different functions involved in more complex sums (e.g. facts to 10 can be taught in various ways with Digit Pop Ups, Busy Boats, Zillions, Wish Fish and Lady Bugs). The Monster Number Line goes further, teaching numbers as high as 30, 50 or even 100 depending on the ability and understanding of the children.
It can be difficult to get boys to engage with maths. Number lines and missing numbers are taught with X-Planes. Footie Facts ensure the attention of so many boys.
One particularly popular primary teaching resource is the Multiplication Rainbow. The Multiplication Rainbow was designed to offer a visual aid to chidlren learning their times tables. Like all the products here mentioned, the design helps make learning that little bit less formal and intimidating, while the bright, regimented colours can act as a guide and reminder for children when trying to recall their times tables.
Both adults and children do some of their best learning when they don’t even realise they ARE learning. Playground Pictures extend the learning experience into the playground or garden. External PVC wall pictures put across important primary Maths information in a friendly and unobtrusie manner. Available pictures include rabbits, caterpillars and flowers. All can be easily fixed to walls or fences with glue, screws or nails.
Above all, the items are designed to make Maths fun. Concepts that might appear all to easy to grown ups require a good deal of memorisation by a child. Using fun, relatable concepts makes that job far easier for them.
Children's books have lots of pictures because children understand pictures better than they do words or numbers. That’s why the best primary teaching resources have a strong visual element. Easily recognisable images children can relate to are used to teach numeracy in a fun manner.
Money is taught with cards showing mathematical sweets; each sweet is an individual unit, boxes of sweets stand for tens and jars of sweets symbolise hundreds. It’s a whole lot less dry than dealing with pence pounds. The majority of children of primary school age will not have managed a lot of cash, but they may be only too familiar with counting out and eying up sweets. These sweet cards were the first, but there are now a variety of Place Value card sets, using diverse enjoyable metaphors to teach practical mathematical skills.
Fractions are shown through commonly divisible items like pizzas, pies, puddings and tarts. Several other sets allow the same topics to be taught but with marginally different focus, in order that children can separate and recognise the different functions involved in more complex sums (e.g. facts to 10 can be taught in various ways with Digit Pop Ups, Busy Boats, Zillions, Wish Fish and Lady Bugs). The Monster Number Line goes further, teaching numbers as high as 30, 50 or even 100 depending on the ability and understanding of the children.
It can be difficult to get boys to engage with maths. Number lines and missing numbers are taught with X-Planes. Footie Facts ensure the attention of so many boys.
One particularly popular primary teaching resource is the Multiplication Rainbow. The Multiplication Rainbow was designed to offer a visual aid to chidlren learning their times tables. Like all the products here mentioned, the design helps make learning that little bit less formal and intimidating, while the bright, regimented colours can act as a guide and reminder for children when trying to recall their times tables.
Both adults and children do some of their best learning when they don’t even realise they ARE learning. Playground Pictures extend the learning experience into the playground or garden. External PVC wall pictures put across important primary Maths information in a friendly and unobtrusie manner. Available pictures include rabbits, caterpillars and flowers. All can be easily fixed to walls or fences with glue, screws or nails.
Above all, the items are designed to make Maths fun. Concepts that might appear all to easy to grown ups require a good deal of memorisation by a child. Using fun, relatable concepts makes that job far easier for them.