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Boost Your Lessons with Our Hands-On Resources for Teaching Mathematics 

Our range of hands-on products is the perfect complement to our detailed lesson plans. They’re bright, so they’re fun to use, and your students will be eager to get stuck in. They’re durable because we can promise more engagement from your class, but not that they won’t get carried away and throw your resources around the classroom. Our hundred-bead sets, for example, include heat-sealed strings to prevent frays when the beads are continually shifted around, and the plastic beads can cope with more than a few drops on the floor. We include one larger set for you to demonstrate and then 30 smaller sets for class practice. These are an engaging way to learn counting, basic addition and subtraction and place value. 

How Our Maths Resources for Teachers Make Lessons More Relatable 

The part of our brains responsible for grasping abstract ideas isn’t formed until around the time we’re 12 years old. That means that during primary school, it’s harder to get children interested in maths because they’re easily overwhelmed when they can’t understand the abstract concepts and symbols you bring up. By bringing physical maths resources into your classroom, you can remove the abstract and allow your students to get hands-on with the maths concepts you bring up. 

For example, place values are a particularly hard concept to grasp as there are multiple abstract ideas with the different values within large numbers and then into decimals. It’s a hugely important concept to grasp, though, for students to be able to describe and calculate numbers when they’re older. That’s where our place value counters set comes in. It includes 12 different place values, including decimals and whole numbers, and they’re each in different colours to help clearly show the difference in values to your students. There are also place value title cards to make anything from small decimals to millions to allow your class to lay out numbers and see how the words match up with the numbers. Laying out the values visually and allowing students to move the options around themselves will cement the ideas in their minds in a way a textbook or whiteboard can’t. Read More

Activities like this also allow your students to quickly correct an error by moving a counter rather than having to cross out work in an exercise book or worksheet. Correcting small mistakes frequently activates a different part of the brain and releases dopamine, which leads to better understanding of the subject. We don’t need to tell you that a deeper understanding in students leads to improved results in tests, thanks to good recall. Good test scores are, of course, not the only indication you’ve done a good job as an educator, but we’re sure they’re discussed with you frequently. 

Using our mathematics teaching resources to bring in hands-on maths tuition into your primary classroom has a range of benefits aside from improved test results. They include:

  • Improved interaction

As mentioned above, young students can’t tackle abstract concepts, but these physical options make it physical and easier to understand. Not only that, but it’s more fun, so when students are enjoying their lessons and taking in the information, you’ll find hands flying up around the classroom. This boosts the mood of students and teachers and makes the environment better for learning. 

  • Making it easier to incorporate different learning styles

Most people have one sense that’s linked to their best learning outcomes. Hands-on maths resources for primary teachers bring in visual, auditory, and tactile information, so you’ve covered all the senses you can. Using multiple senses also engages more areas of the brain, leading to deeper understanding and better recall, so even those who learn well with more traditional methods can benefit. 

  • A broader range of skills

Particularly in younger primary classes, our small maths counters can help build hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. This will help with writing and in other classes, such as art. Hands-on activities also develop problem-solving, critical thinking, and often teamwork skills. You’re sure to see the advantages of this in other lessons, and your colleagues in secondary education are sure to thank you. 

Save Time with Our Maths Resources Class for Schools 

Our hands-on props are all referenced in our detailed lesson plans. We have more than 400 lessons available on our easy-to-use platform, and each one has a video included to go over the basic principles and demonstrate how best to use your new maths accessories to shake up your classroom. We have many positive testimonials that show our maths resources class for teachers can improve interaction in classes and increase enthusiasm for the important subject. All this and as we’ve done the work for you, you can get back some of your precious time spent lesson planning and finding new ideas. 

You can fill up a basket of our helpful accessories now to bring the excitement back into your classroom. You can also sign up for our maths subscription plan to access our lesson plans or reach out to our team through our contact form, and they’ll be happy to help you take this exciting step in your teaching journey. Read Less