Numberboards (Lower Primary)

Games and hands-on activities

Author: Ron Smith

Format: 96 pp book

ISBN: 9781863667319 SCIS No: 1142518

Publisher: Education Services Australia 2001

Audience: Teacher and student resource

Price: $37.95

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ebook ebook edition also available

This collection of 48 games and activities provides a fun way for students in the first three years of schooling to learn and consolidate early numeracy concepts.

Numberboards moves away from the 'chalk and talk' approach to involve students in a hands-on way. Different learning styles are catered for as students are given opportunities to work collaboratively, individually or competitively. The activities make use of materials that are readily available in primary classrooms.

The activities include:

a list of materials required
learning outcomes for Number
suggestions for teacher observation, questioning and whole class discussion
a reproducible student card
a reproducible activity board

Judy Hartnett

This title contains a series of activities where students work with hands on materials to answer questions, play games and generally reinforce number and operation concepts. Each activity is presented so it can be used in a variety of ways with students working together, playing a game to be the winner or working individually. Many of the activities provide more than one of these presentations making the activities more flexible and more than doubling the amount of activities possible from ideas the students will learn quickly and enjoy. Black-line masters for games are provided and other resources would be the type of materials readily available in schools making this book a resource that an early years teacher could pick up and use straight away.