2011-11-23 
Primary teaching resources for Maths are able to bring alive what might well be a dry topic. A sound handling of maths is a vital tool for boys and girls to learn, and the sooner they get a full understanding of numbers the better. Time was teachers would spend many hours devising and making resources with which to make maths an enjoyable visual experience. Today, however, there are a lot of primary teaching resources on the market which engage with small children on a strong visual level. Primary school children may not yet have strong reading or numerical schools (that, after all, is why they are primary school children), but their visual skills are as strong as any. That's why the best primary teaching resources use pictures to explain complex ideas like maths. Common pictures pupils can relate to are used to teach numeracy in a fun manner. Currency is taught using cards showing mathematical sweets; each individual sweet is one unit, boxes of sweets signify tens and jars of sweets signify hundreds. It's so much less dry than discussing pence pounds. The majority of young people of primary school age will never have managed significant amounts of cash, but they will probably be only too familiar with counting out and eying up sweets. These sweet cards were the very first, but now there are various Place Value card sets, using diverse enjoyable metaphors to teach practical mathematical skills. Fractions are shown through divisible items such as pizzas, pies, puddings and tarts. Several other sets permit the same subject areas to be taught but with slightly different focus, to ensure that children can separate and recognise the discrete jobs involved in more sophisticated sums (e.g. facts to 10 can be taught in different ways with Digit Pop Ups, Busy Boats, Zillions, Wish Fish and Lady Bugs). The Monster Number Line goes even further, teaching numbers as high as 30, 50 or even 100 depending on the abilities and understanding of the children. It can be difficult to get boys to engage with numbers. Number lines and missing numbers are taught with X-Planes, while Footie Facts frame digits and bonds to 10 or doubles in a manner that many young boys will find engaging and interesting. One particularly popular primary teaching resource is the Multiplication Rainbow. It is essentially a redesigned multiplication table. Rather than having the digits in strict lines and columns, they are arranged along the cures and colours of a rainbow. Like all the products here mentioned, the design helps make learning that little bit less formal and intimidating, while the bright, regimented colours can act as a guide and reminder for children when trying to recall their times tables. Both adults and children do some of their best learning when they don't even realise they ARE learning. Playground Pictures extend the learning experience into the playground or garden. PVC wall pictures display important literacy or numeracy information in a friendly and unobtrusie manner. Available pictures include rabbits, stars and flowers. All can be easily fixed to walls or fences with glue, screws or nails. Primarily, these items will make learning fun. Ideas that might seem all to easy to adults call for a great deal of memorisation from a child. Using fun, relatable concepts makes that job far easier for them. 2011-11-23 Start blogging by clicking in this area. Then simply type whatever you wish. You can also drag an object from the left hand column into this area. This will allow you to add pictures, videos, etc. to your blog posts.
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