Please note: Classes mentioned are as a guide only and are not intended to restrict or limit.
Maths Playground: Excellent site packed with interactive games, word problems, videos, logic puzzles and more
Early Mathematics
Ideas for Sorting Activities ADD TO DIGGING DEEPER
Algebra Board: InTouch article FIND THIS ON INTO????
Pattern Activities: Ideas suitable for junior classes ADD TO DIGGING DEEPER
Ready, Set, Go-Maths is a practical handbook that provides guidance for infant teachers on a range of teaching and learning approaches to develop key concepts and skills in early number.
Keeping Numbers on Track: A fantastic InTouch article (from Nov 2012), explaining how to use number lines to develop children's ability to better understand numbers and to calculate computations mentally FIND THIS ON INTO????
Series of lessons to teach the story of numbers 1-9
Activity pack to teach number bonds to 10
Sound of a Number Activity.PDF
Number facts (Tables):
Approaches to teaching the basic number facts - Addition & Subtraction:an article that outlines the theory and background to the teaching of this area, as well as providing a step-by-step approach
Making the tables add up! InTouch Article from PPDS, focussing on addition facts
Making the tables add up-again! Another InTouch article, this time with the focus on games to reinforce addition number facts
Place Value:
Teaching Place Value: A suggested line of development
Place Value Activities: for 1st & 2nd, includes teaching multiples of 10, ordering etc
Place Value Activity Pack: A huge pack of teaching ideas, games etc
Number Knowledge: Suite of lessons from NZ Maths, look to those in level 1 & 2, eg teen numbers, ty numbers etc
Interactive Base blocks: can be used to teach place value, from NLVM
Place value cards: This ITP allows you to explore place value up to 999
Number line: Customisable ITP with ranges from -50 to 500
100 bead string: Counting on and back along a 100 bead string
Place Value Activities: Including games, teaching ideas and loop cards (I have;who has) from Mathswire
Place Value Games: using dice or cards, simple and adaptable to most classes
Teaching Place value through music: A Youtube clip
The Place Value Rock Song: A Youtube clip
Fractions:
A Guide to Teaching and Learning Fractions in Irish Primary Schools: An excellent and comprehensive guide from the PDST
Fraction Game: Instructions for how to make and play the fraction game from Lines of Development in Primary Maths
Operations:
NCCA Tip Sheets for Parents: Tip sheets that outline for parents how they can help with Renaming in Subtraction (2nd Class) and maths in general
Addition & Subtraction Marbles Card Game 1st & 2nd.pdf: Oral maths game that is ready to print out
Addition & Subtraction Transition Boards 1st & 2nd.doc: Ready to print boards, very useful for teaching renaming and regrouping
Transition Boards Presentation 1st & 2nd.ppt
Ten Frames:
Activities and template: Ready to print out
Ten Frame Systems: A useful website with an introductory video and teaching suggestions.
Presentation that can be used to introduce Ten Frames to snr inf and/or first class; can also be used to play ten frame flash on IWB or printed out to make ten frame flash cards
Time:
Units of work on time: From NZ Maths
Elapsed Time - Strategies that work: Practical ideas and examples of strategies to teach this, from Scholastic
Time from BGfL: Telling the time, AM/PM and 24 hour
Time Printouts: Customisable, printable document of clock faces, digital and analogue times, using hour, half hour and quarter hours. Numerous possibilities! (NB you need to sign up free to tes.co.uk to access this)
Telling the time: Animation that teaches telling time in intervals of 1 and half hours
Calendar Activity: Looking at days and dates
Time Games: A good selection of interactive games/resources, also suitable for use on the IWB, from the Woodlands Junior School
Primary Resources: A whole host of time related worksheets, presentations etc.
Sparklebox: Printable time-related resources
Shape and Space
2D Shapes: Presentation to explore their properties
Shape and Space Presentation Infant- 2nd.ppt
2D Shapes - Geoboard Activities.doc
Shape and Space Powerpoint - Tangrams & Puzzles.ppt
Attribute Blocks (Interactive programme)Learn color and shape concepts by sorting blocks.Can also be used for problem solving
Attribute Trains – (Interactive programme) Learn about shape and color patterns of by completing trains of blocks. Can also be used for problem solving
Mentimeter: Interactive ,very easy to use programme for polling