Additional materials and resources to assist your child/ren with their numeracy skills.
Cooking
Cooking with children is a great way to reinforce measurement skills, fractions, sequencing, understanding of time and knowledge of metric and imperial units of measure.
Suitable for ages 4-16
There are a wide range of cooking books available at bookshops as well as online.
Counters
Counters are helpful in teaching children basic math skills such as counting, sorting and patterning.
Once children have mastered counting and identifying numbers, you can use counters to help teach skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills.
Suitable for ages 6-12
Counters are available to purchase online as well as from retail stores.
Cuisenaire Rods
Cuisenaire rods are mathematical learning aids for students that provide a hands-on way to learn concepts, such as the four operations, fractions and division.
Suitable for ages 6-12
Kits can be purchased online.
Dice are an easy way to help counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication skills.
Dice range from 4-sided dice all the way up to 20-sided dice.
Suitable for ages 6-12
These dice are available to purchase online as well as from retail stores.
Dice games are a great interactive way to teach students their numeral identification, subitising, addition, subtraction and multiplication skills.
Suitable for ages 6-12
There are wide range of dice games available.
Gamewright Series
The Gamewright Series have produced over 150 games which reinforce numeracy skills appropriate for varying ages and skill level.
Suitable for ages 4-12
These games are available to purchase from online bookshops.
Place value mats are used to help students explore the place value of different numbers using hands-on manipulatives.
Suitable for ages 6-12
These place value mats are free to access.
Engage with financial literacy practices in a real-world environment.
Students can create a family budget, estimate, record and track grocery expenses as well as understanding cost per kg.
There are a wide range of shopping dramatic play opportunities online for younger children to engage with.
Suitable for ages 4-16
Snakes and Ladders
Reinforce counting strategies, addition, and subtraction in this fun and interactive game.
Suitable for ages 6-12
This game is available to purchase online and from retails stores.
Unifix cubes are a great resource to use when teaching early number skills.
Unifix cubes click together easily to assist children with counting and early numeracy development.
Suitable for ages 4-12
These cubes are available to purchase on the website.
Uno
Uno is an easy game to play with primary school aged children.
Once children know the rules of the game, it can help children to identify numbers 1-9 as well as practising addition and subtraction facts.
Suitable for ages 6-12
Uno cards are available to purchase online and from retail stores.
Yahtzee
Reinforce mathematics skills using this engaging dice-based board game.
Suitable for ages 6-12
This game is available to purchase online and from retail stores.