There are 3 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Number line/counting stick, you may find related items under Physical and Digital Manipulatives.
Broad Topics > Physical and Digital Manipulatives > Number line/counting stickUse five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
A resource to try once children are familiar with number lines, and they have begun to use them for addition. It could be a good way to talk about subtraction. Leah and Tom each have a number line. . . .
Marion Bond recommends that children should be allowed to use 'apparatus', so that they can physically handle the numbers involved in their calculations, for longer, or across a wider ability band,. . . .