Mathematical Development
From cardinal counting and conservation of number, to ordinal number sequencing. You'll find everything you need for the foundation of Numeracy right here.
Animal Months printable
Visit in a new windowLovely simple printable sheet with all the months, each with their own decorative animal and a whole-year sheet. From the Mrs Pancake site.
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Aquarium
Visit in a new windowWhat a great resource, explore the depths of an aquarium, great for counting fish etc.., colours imaginative play, poetry, animals, you name it, creative teachers will be in their sea-crazed element.
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Basic shapes activities
Visit in a new window3 activities include - make a shape picture, find shapes in a picture and images of a square, rectangle, circle and triangle.
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Bead pattern paint
Visit in a new windowWe like this simple pattern making game from Crick. Copy the pattern which you are given.
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Beadstring Patterns
Visit in a new windowCreate wonderful patterns and encourage the children to guess what they will see next. Uses shapes and colours.
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Big Medium and Small drag and drop animals
Visit in a new windowA simple drag and drop activity teaching big, medium and small, which could be teacher led. Nice and open ended.
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Bubbles
Visit in a new windowClick on the bubbles and they burst. Be creative - you can use this so flexibly. eg Can you burst 3 bubbles? Can you burst 1 more than 4 bubbles? etc.... Wonderful. Also great for hand-eye coordination.
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Butterfly paint
Visit in a new windowSuper resource or encouraging matching and pattern making.
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Colour by numbers to 8
Visit in a new windowColour the super hero by using knowledge of numbers. Words are matched to numerals.
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Comparisons
Visit in a new windowCompare longest to shortest etc.. with this simple activity. Great.
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Count and catch
Visit in a new windowYou are asked to catch a number of fish. Use the net and gather them up. A great resource to support counting.
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Count and order to 5 and 6
Visit in a new windowCount the objects to 5 and 6. There's also a super order the numbers activity. Super for Foundation.
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Count sets of objects to 5
Visit in a new windowMatch 3 apples to the number 3 and so on. Simple number based activity.
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Count to 20
Visit in a new windowWe love this game. Count the bobbing barrels in the sea and type in the number. A super resource that would suit older learners as well as foundation.
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Counting ants to 150
Visit in a new windowCount random sets of ants up to a maximum of 25, 50, 75, 100, 150.
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Counting cakes
Visit in a new windowA wonderful Kent education resource which develops counting and discussion about numbers. Great for sharing and division too. Please save the zipped folder to your desktop. Windows XP will allow you to open the folder by double clicking on it.
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Counting different animals
Visit in a new windowMixed animals to count. randomly generates numbers under 50.
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Counting fish to 25
Visit in a new windowGenerate a random number of fish to a maximum of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Then count them - choose to cover the numeral or allow it to be shown. Fish can be dragged easily to aid counting.
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Create your own dot to dot puzzles
Visit in a new windowWe couldn't quite believe this either! Simply locate a picture on the internet and create a super dot to dot. Great for counting, also for fine motor skills. This does take time to set up, so please give yourself plenty of time to look through the resource.
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Direction and counting
Visit in a new windowWe reckon the snakes and ladders game, dino puzzle and car control game will get a big thumbs up in your classroom.
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Fat Sausages Sizzling In A Pan
Visit in a new windowBurst them and sing along - great for counting.
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Five Little Ducks
Visit in a new windowSing along and enjoy counting the ducks - a wonderful activity for foundation stage.
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Folowing instructions on a bumper car ride
Visit in a new windowFollowing spoken instructions as "Click on the bumper car that is the same as Mr Bump's car". A basic matching activity really!
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How many?
Visit in a new windowYou are shown a picture - click on how many items you can see. You are given the option of a variety of answers to click on. A great counting resource.
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Joint the dots
Visit in a new windowThe dots need to be joined but who will be able to count to 29! Great for counting and fine motor skills.
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Kaleidoscope
Visit in a new windowCreate wonderful shapes and displays - change the size, shape and colour. Mesmerising.
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Make patterns
Visit in a new windowWe couldn't resist this lovely open ended game. Drag shapes onto the wall and create a pattern. Great for Foundation.
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Match numbers
Visit in a new windowCollect objects to match numbers 1-5 or 6-10. A great number work activity.
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Match the pictures
Visit in a new windowConcentrate hard to match the pictures which have very subtle differences! Ideal for shape recognition and observation skills.
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Match the shapes to the picture
Visit in a new windowDrag the correct shapes onto the picture and then make it move. Super resource.
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Matching and number activites
Visit in a new windowLots of lovely printables to help with numeracy work in the Foundation stage.
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Matching fruit
Visit in a new windowDrag the pictures to match the fruit. A great resource to stimulate discussion on fruit, food, colours and numbers.
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Measuring scales
Visit in a new windowThis is a useful teacher tool to introduce the idea of measure and weighing.
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Missing number
Visit in a new windowA simple game where you are given 1,2,3,*,5 and you pick the missing number from a number of options.
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Mr Man matching game
Visit in a new windowSimple Mr Man memory match. Perfect for the whiteboard.
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Next highest number game
Visit in a new windowHelp the frog across the river by jumping to the next number in the sequence.
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Number line to ten
Visit in a new windowDuck shoot encourages the children to count along the number line (numbers are missing to encourage counting to ten) and click on the given number to win.
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Number recognition
Visit in a new windowChildren shown a numeral - they must click on a list of numerals to match these together. Simple number recognition game.
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Numbers 1-9
Visit in a new windowLearn about them and also how to write them with this super set of resources.
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Numbers on the clock
Visit in a new windowDrag the numbers to the correct spots on the clock. A simple activity which displays the time (according to the computer you are using).
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Odd one out, counting to 5 and sequences
Visit in a new windowWhat a lovely site. Simple, useful, fun. Great for Foundation stage.
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Order numbers activity
Visit in a new windowOrder from 1-5, even numbers to 10, odd numbers to 10 and a selection of numbers to 20.
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Orderly owl ordering challenge
Visit in a new windowCan you order the following? Days of the Week, Alphabetical Animals, Numbers, Little and Large and Names.
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Puzzle selection
Visit in a new windowEven more puzzles to enjoy! Includes a pig, minibeast, rainbow, Christmas holly leaf, holiday ball, moon, flower and clown!
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Puzzles
Visit in a new windowA range of puzzles which will encourage discussions about colour and shape.
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Recognise numbers and count to 9
Visit in a new windowA beautiful activity. Click on the number and a group of objects appear for you to count. All teacher led. Super.
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Shape challenge
Visit in a new windowA great shape based activity. Create the given picture by resizing, orientating, changing the colour of given shapes. Can also be used for free expression.
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Shapes activities
Visit in a new windowThere is a host of activities to encourage shape vocabulary and exploration on this Priory woods school site.
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Simple block graph
Visit in a new windowClick on the boxes to make a simple graph. The axis can be changed to suit your requirements. Great for the teacher to use as a demonstration.
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Simple subtraction and addition
Visit in a new windowIdeal for foundation stage. The numbers are presented as spots on the back of ladybirds. Set out in a formal linear style.
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Sock pairs - matching colours and designs
Visit in a new windowMatch up the socks. What a job - but someone's got to do it!
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Subtracting by taking away
Visit in a new windowTake sheep from one pen to another - a great visual subtraction activity. The first game starts with 12-6.
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Teddy numbers
Visit in a new windowIncludes digits 1-5, 1-10 and 1-15. Also the same categories with words. Share out the sweets ie give teddy 4 sweets from the jar.
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The right order
Visit in a new windowA delightful sequencing activity. Sequence the pictures for dressing up, Christmas morning, Easter egg sizes, making a snowman, going to school.
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