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Bead Numbers - Place Value

Bead Numbers is a place value investigation involving a tens and ones abacus. The game provides a good context for encouraging learners to think systematically.

6-8 year olds
Pupils

Number Line

Number Line helps students visualise number sequences and illustrate strategies for counting, comparing or the four operations. Number lines can be easily adapted with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or negative numbers.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Look, Cover, Write, Check

A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words to test your knowledge.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Writing Tips: Essay Builder

Good advice here for improving your essay writing techniques.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

Images to Inspire

Looking for inspiration for creative writing? Look no further. This great site from Teaching Packs has evocative photographs with lots of ideas for the classroom.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Thinking of a Number

Guess the number by revealing the clues on the clouds one by one. This site lends itself to use on an interactive whiteboard.

5-8 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Thinking of a Number

Use inverse operations to work backwards to find the missing number. Useful as a teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Number Line

An interactive number line to support the teaching of number and scales. Useful for teaching negative numbers. It has been designed for use on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Letter Formation

This site has excellent animations which provide a good model for learners starting to write letters. They indicate the starting points and proper strokes required. Works well on an interactive whiteboard.

3-7 year olds
Pupils

Number Trains

Make a train by sequencing the mumbers on their carriages. The numbers are represented in a range of formats such as words, numerals, dice dots or counting frames. The levels progress in difficulty. Level 5 has sequences of twos, fives and tens.

6-8 year olds
Pupils
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