Hands-on Maths Year 1

Hands-on Maths for Year 1 offers a 10 minute activity per day based upon the use of readily available classroom objects or 'manipulatives’ such as counters, shells, cars, dice, bricks and more. The series supports a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach to help pupils’ develop mastery of key mathematical concepts and National Curriculum objectives.

Divided into 6 weeks per mathematical topic area (6 areas: counting, representing numbers, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and Fractions) and 5 daily activities per page.

The 6 week programme overview for Year 1 in Counting is:

Week 1: Count to and across 20

Week 2: Count to and across 50

Week 3: Count to 100

Week 4: Count in multiples of twos

Week 5: Count in multiples of fives

Week 6: Count in multiples of tens