Visual Number Teaching Tools

The aim of this 94 page booklet is to help those children who find the concepts of number difficult. These children often don't make the links and connections between the different arithemetic structures naturally and feel overwhelmed by a mass of separate facts to learn and a jungle of symbols to understand. Using a structured visual image approach, teachers find they have something concrete on which to apply, and repeat their explanations and the students begin to assimilate the language surrounding arithmetic structures and the symbols that represent them. Structured visual images provide teachers with a bridge between the abstract ideas and real arithmetic applications. The images support teachers explanations. The book is primarily a teaching tool, but there are some photocopiable work pages. I have avoided giving lengthy written explanations about the images as I believe teachers will use the images to support their own explanations.