Content of the Box
Coloured blocks (100)
Description: Blocks with holes right around.
Used for: Counting, building towers, making shapes, building anything creative
Coloured number blocks (80)
Description: Blocks of different sizes and colours with a small numerical symbol that indicates the size.
Used for: Counting, comparing values, estimating, pattern completion, number combinations, doubling and halving.
Patterned blocks (50)
Description: Flat shapes of different colours
Used for: Counting, making pictures, pattern completion, characteristics of shapes
Dominoes (28)
Description: Flat, yellow, rectangular objects that are halved, with dots on each side.
Used for: Comparing amounts (most / fewest dots), informal addition, informal subtraction.
Number cards 1-10
Description: White, rectangular cards that are halved, with dots on the one side and a numerical value on the other side.
Used for: Learning numerical symbols, comparing amounts, even and uneven amounts.
Abacus
Description: Flat, rectangular instrument with coloured blocks that can be moved back and forth
Used for: Counting on and backward, counting in 2’s, comparing amounts, informal addition, informal subtraction.
Tangram
Description: A Chinese puzzle that consists of two large triangles, two small triangles, a medium-sized triangle, a square and a parallelogram. The pieces form a square when fitted together
Used for: Making pictures
Dice
Description: A cube-shaped object that has dots from one to six on each of the six surfaces.
Used for: Exposure to numbers, games, comparisons of amounts.
