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Placing Numbers on a Number Line

A versatile number line that can be used at many different levels beginning at numbers 1 to 10 up to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. Place numbers on a number line and see how close you can get.

5-14 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

Using Numbers on a Number Line

An excellent podcast with ideas for improving children's understanding of number lines and how teachers can draw out pupils' reasoning skills, use of language and the beginning of understanding proportion.

5-7 year olds
Teachers

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

Rocket Rounding

A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Teddy Numbers

The Teddy Numbers game can help you to learn numbers to 15. Learn the digits and words for the numbers and it game can help you learn to count too.

3-5 year olds
Pupils, Parents

Add and Subtract on a Number Line

Try adding and subtracting near multiples on a number line. Develop mental methods of addition and subtraction by adding and subtracting a multiple of 10 or 100, and then adjusting. Works well on IWB.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Compare Numbers on a Number Line

Compare numbers on two different number lines and decide which is bigger. A great game to get children thinking about reading varying scales. Useful teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Number Compare

Compare numbers and quantities up to 10, using a strategy such as grouping, subitizing, counting, or a number line.

4-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Number Pieces

A great teaching resource which helps children to understand place value. It uses hundreds, tens and ones blocks. It's great for demonstrating decomposition as you can break apart the pieces.

5-7 year olds
Pupils
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