Materials & Equipment
Useful Teaching Aids for Your ClassroomDigital 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.
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
- playing decks of cards
- sets of 0 to 9 numbers
- container/s of Australian coins
- container/s of assorted dice
- container/s of 1 to 6 dice
- blank spinners
- blank dice
- large decagon dice
- Set of 1 to 100 cards
- Stopwatch/es
- large measuring tape/s
- metric tape measures
- container/s of multilink
- playing decks of cards
- sets of 0 to 9 numbers
- container/s of Australian coins
- container/s of assorted dice
- container/s of 1 to 6 dice
- blank spinners
- blank dice
- large decagon dice
- Set of 1 to 100 cards
- ohp analogue-digital clocks
- 2 packs of transparent spinners
- ohp counters
- ohp calculator/s
- ohp 1 to 6 dice
- Ohp fraction strips (1/6, 1/8/ 1/10, 1/12s)
- packets of large, coloured popsticks
- large set/s of playing cards
- Calculators
- protractors
- geometry templates/mathomats
- laminated probability line
- pack of happy face stickers
- 1 container of assorted buttons
- 1 to 100 oht number boards
- 30cm rulers
- 1 box of ties
- 1 box of straws
- packets of fraction strips
- sets of fraction circles
- sets of fraction triangles
- sets of fraction squares
- 1 desktop equivalence mega flip
- packets of 4 coloured counters
- sets of tangrams
- set/s of floor number mats (1 to 10)
- popsticks
- container/s of assorted buttons
- laminated 1 to 100 chart/s
- large 1 to 6 dice
- pack/s of 500 links
- container/s of 100 1 to 6 dice
- container/s of assorted size koalas
- container of assorted colour ohp counters
- box of shape bean bags
- bucket/s of 60 rainbow stacking pegs
- packet/s of popcubes
- set/s of geometric solids
- container/s of koala counters with carriages
- Turn and Learn board
- Canteen price lists
- Phone books (out of date)
- Melways (out of date)
- Large amounts of play money (notes and coins)
- Trundle wheels (with counter)
- Scales (kitchen, bathroom, balance)
- Spring balances
- Measurement beakers/jars
- Litre set
- Centicube
- Weights
- Metre rulers
- Metre cubes
- thermometers
- Rubber bands
- Calendars
- MAB (for grades 3 to 6)
- Streamers
- Digital clocks
- Shopping catalogues
- Attribute blocks
- Pattern blocks
