Number Friends and the Number Bond Sports Day
This is the third book in the ‘Number Friends’ series and has been designed to help young children explore the concept of ‘number bonds to ten’, and to introduce the ‘part-whole model’ diagrams which are often used in early maths in schools.
The short stories also explore friendships, teamwork and celebrate how we are all good at different things.
This is the third book in the ‘Number Friends’ series and has been designed to help young children explore the concept of ‘number bonds to ten’, and to introduce the ‘part-whole model’ diagrams which are often used in early maths in schools.
The short stories also explore friendships, teamwork and celebrate how we are all good at different things.
This is the third book in the ‘Number Friends’ series and has been designed to help young children explore the concept of ‘number bonds to ten’, and to introduce the ‘part-whole model’ diagrams which are often used in early maths in schools.
The short stories also explore friendships, teamwork and celebrate how we are all good at different things.
Join the Number Friends as they take part in their annual Sports Day, hosted by The Grand Old Duke, who loves ‘number bonds’ and all things to do with the number ten!
This is the third book in the ‘Number Friends’ series and has been designed to help young children explore the concept of ‘number bonds to ten’, and to introduce the ‘part-whole model’ diagrams which are often used in early maths in schools. The short stories also explore friendships, teamwork and celebrate how we are all good at different things.
Created to appeal to a wide range of learning styles, and learning needs including dyslexia and dyscalculia, the ‘Number Friends’ series uses familiar characters to explore early maths concepts.
Message from the Author
During my time teaching, I noticed that there are countless resources for teaching children to write and form letters, but there are not many (if any) similar resources for teaching the formation of numbers. I started thinking about how to fill this gap and decided to play around with the idea of teaching early maths concepts through a fun story.
I came up with the concept of having a different character for each number; ones that may already be familiar to young children from nursery rhymes and songs.
This idea quickly snowballed and I ended up with each number having it’s own character, colour, story, and memorable rhyme to help recall the digit formation.
I wanted to have ‘things to spot’ in the illustration for each number, to help build up the childs understanding of each number having a value. So for the three little pigs, there are three clouds to spot, three apples on a tree, three bees near the honey pot etc. I also wanted the character representing each number to be able to feature in future books and perhaps explore that number in more detail.
Because the Early Years framework is so cross curricular and play based, I also wanted to bring in lots of ideas which linked to other areas of learning; so looking at the three little pigs again, children could build dens or maybe make some honey on toast and talk about instructions and the importance of ordering and sequencing.
I tried to tie in many areas of the Early Years curriculum, such as colours, prepositions, day and night, animals, exploring different materials, healthy eating, music and also activities to help develop gross motor and fine motor skills… it was a lot to organise and fit into ten short stories!
