Materials & Equipment

Useful Teaching Aids for Your Classroom

Digital Resources

Seeing as a number of teachers have requested it, I’ve added a digital resources section to the website! These are some sets of cards that I (actually, his assistant/daughter) put together to print out and use in classroom activities. There’s no specific activity attached to them, so feel free to use them as you please. It might be a game of in-betweenies, get me to 10/get me to 1000, or even just having your students sort them from highest to lowest.

Place Value Cards for Years 3-6

Number Cards for Foundation to Year 2

Physical Resources

These are some useful bits and pieces that I’d reccommend having around your classroom if you can. They’re great for classroom activities and can be handy tools for kids to use in their problem solving strategies, especially in the younger year levels. Some of them, like the old phone books, might be a bit hard to find these days!

Stopwatch/es
Large measuring tape/s
Metric tape measures
Container/s of multilink (all grade levels)
Playing decks of cards (all grade levels)
Sets of 0 to 9 numbers
Container/s of assorted dice
Container/s of 1 to 6 dice (all grade levels)
Blank spinners
Blank dice (1 -6, 0 – 9; etc.)
Large decagon dice
Set of 1 to 100 cards
Analogue-digital clocks
2 packs of transparent spinners
Double sided (2 coloured) counters
Transparent counters
Equivalence fraction towers (not just fraction towers!)
Packets of large, coloured popsticks
Set/s of large playing cards
Calculators (good quality – big buttons and good-sized screen)
Protractors
Geometry templates/mathomats
Laminated probability line
Containers of assorted buttons
1 to 100 number charts
0 to 99 number charts
Turn and Learn board
30cm rulers
Packets of fraction pies/pizzas
Sets of fraction circles
Sets of fraction triangles
Sets of fraction squares
Packets of 4 coloured counters
Sets of tangrams
Set/s of floor number mats (1 to 10)
Laminated 1 to 100 chart/s (large and small)

Laminated 0 to 99 chart/s (large and small)
Laminated tens frames
Magnetic tens frames for whiteboard
Large 1 to 6 dice
Pack/s of 500 links
Container/s of 100 1 to 6 dice
Container/s of assorted size koalas
Sets of dominoes
Links
Bead frames (small and one large)
Bucket/s of 60 rainbow stacking pegs
Packet/s of popcubes
Set/s of geometric solids
Container/s of koala counters with carriages
Canteen price lists
Large amounts of play money (Australian notes and coins)
Set of magnetic notes and coins for whiteboard
Trundle wheels (with counter)
Scales (kitchen, bathroom, balance)
Spring balances
Measurement beakers/jars
Litre sets
Centicube
Weights
Thermometers
Rubber bands
Calendars
MAB (for grades 3 to 6)
Streamers
Shopping catalogues
Attribute blocks
Metric Pattern blocks (hundredpercent.com.au)
METRE RULERS (including a magnetized one to attach to your whiteboard)

RECOMMENDED REFERENCES/RESOURCE BOOKS:

It’s almost impossible to keep up with all the publications that are out there
for maths – and triple that for keeping up with on-line resources – but here
are some reference/resource books that I really trust and that are
philosophically sound.

Maths On The Go 1

R. Vingerhoets; Matilda Education;

www.matildaeducation.com.au

[prep to 8]

Maths On The Go 2

R. Vingerhoets; Matilda Education;

www.matildaeducation.com.au

[prep to 8]

Open-Ended Maths Tasks

Books 1 and 2; Kate Emry, Lyn Lewis, Clare Morfett.
Hawker Brownlow Education; ISBN 1 74170 230 5 [prep to 6]

Number Sense; A. McIntosh,

B. Reys, R. Reys; Dale Seymour Publications.
4 books in the series. {try book depository, fishpond, google, – anywhere!}
Number Sense – Grades 1-2; ISBN 1 57232 261 6
Number Sense – Grades 3-4; ISBN 1 57232 262 4
Number Sense – Grades 4-6; ISBN 1 57232 263 2
Number Sense – Grades 6-8; ISBN 1 57232 264 0

Open Ended Maths Activities;

P.Sullivan, P. Lilburn; Oxford;
ISBN 0 19 554099 9; Open Ended Maths Activities – Second Edition, P.Sullivan, P.
Lilburn; Oxford; ISBN 0 19 551768 7 [prep to 8]