These activities will help children develop a strong sense of number and are part of our Number Sense and Place Value Feature.
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Dice
This dice activity encourages children to relate the number on the dice to the number of teddies they need to choose.
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Golden beans
This task provides children with an opportunity to count 'golden beans' and find a number card to represent how many they have.
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Dot card games
These games devised by Jenni Way use dot cards which will help children see the structure of numbers 1-6 and give them confidence as they begin to add and subtract these numbers.
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Number rhymes
In this activity, the rhyme 'Ten Green Bottles' is used to encourage children to count backwards to work out how many bottles are left.
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Incey Wincey
In this game, children roll the dice and count how many steps to move the spider up or down the drainpipe.
problem
Number match
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.