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Make maths real.
Try sharing this collection of more than 200 powerful images to bring maths to life at home or in the classroom.

They'll be lots of brilliant maths talk and NO answers marked with a cross.

For the full screen version, click a photo, add your own questions

pairs of leaves, four times two, making maths real for your child

four times two, seven times three, five times four

chocolate bar with four sections in a row, five times four, great to help your child engage with maths

eggs in a nest, seven times three, making maths real for your child

Times Tables

Chat about the leaves two times table, the eggs three times table and my favourite-the chocolate four times table.
It is really helpful for children to see maths sums made real.

diamond pattern in a brick wall

squares rectangles and circles windows on a building

symmetrical reflection of a duck in water

square pots, circular paving,short and long sticks

Shapes and sizes

With buildings, bricks, paving, sticks...Chat about the shape, size and a whole lot more.

twenty beans to count in groups of ten

fifty beans to count

one hundred beans to count in groups of ten

forty,fifty,sixty beans to count

Number Sense

Compare counting the jelly beans with and without groups of ten- you'll discover together the basis behind our number system now more than a thousand years old!

old racing car number five, making maths real

old racing car number twenty three, making maths real

old racing car number one hundred and eight, making maths real

car with numbers 66,80,180

Number Symbols

Help your child discover number symbols in a friendly way.

slavonic abacus with conkers thirty-five

slavonic abacus with conkers sixty-nine

slavonic abacus with conkers one hundred

abacus with 13,50,61 leaves

Online slavonic abacus

Try out this abacus at home or school. Talk about the patterns our amazing brains use to see up to one hundred without counting- BRILLIANT.

sixty five beads on a rekenrek abacus to subitise

Rekenrek with 20/100 beads

Number detectives get started here, Can you see the number without counting? Amelia's rekenrek abacus looked like this what sum could she have been figuring out?

four stones on top of one another

Subitising

When your child learns to spot three or four objects without counting them this is called subitizing three and four.It's a brilliant skill to support lots of number work.

5 coloured eggs in a ten frame

Sum detectives

Can you think of a sum to go with these pictures?

five wellington boots, two pairs and one odd boot

Odd or even?

Can see a pattern in all the odd numbers?

There are collections of photos relating to maths on these websites too
patterns, eggs, blocks to count lots of maths language describing pictures arrays and patterns Maths in nature Putting Mathematics in the Picture Ideas generated by the West Sussex Leading Mathematics Teachers 2009

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