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Mathematics

Find Out About Problem Solving (age 5-6)

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The adventures of El Nombre, Little Juan, and their Santa Flamingo friends from the popular BBC ‘Numbertime' programme continue in this title for Key Stage 1 Maths

Designed for your interactive whiteboard, featuring more fantastic BBC video clips pictures, games, songs and activities, the title will help children learn more about the world of numbers and problem solving.

 

Key features:

  • Each activity and video clip is designed to involve and motivate children through joining in with a song, suggesting solutions, sharing ideas, using mathematical language, playing games and talking about numbers
  • Planning is made simple and quick: the on-screen notes and the teacher's book support each activity and offer suggestions to extend and reinforce children's own learning
  • Suggestions to support learning and assessment
  • Activities are tagged to the curriculum so you can instantly locate the resources to cover the objective you want
  • The video can be watched full-screen, so everyone in the class is engaged.


Contents include:

  • Counting to 20
  • Ordering numbers to 20
  • Counting in fives and tens
  • Partitioning 'teens' numbers
  • Recognising odd and even numbers
  • Addition: as a Commutative Operation & Number Complements of ten
  • Doubling and halving
  • The difference between two numbers
  • Shape and position
  • Measuring time

Meet Little Juan and his friends

Unit 1: Counting to 20

  • Counting to 20 in Santa Flamingo
  • All about 20
  • The fantastic firework fiesta
  • A wheel problem
  • The Santa Flamingo school fête

Unit 2: Ordering numbers to 20

  • Number line fun with Bill and Bernie
  • Santa Flamingo number line puzzles
  • What is the number?
  • The orderly queue
  • Count and match

Unit 3: Addition

  • The addition sign
  • Fruit stall addition
  • Little Juan and the tricky question
  • Addition hide-and-seek
  • The Santa Flamingo barbeque

Unit 4: Subtraction

  • The early bird and the worms
  • Too many balloons!
  • Race down the ladder
  • The minus sign
  • Subtraction in Santa Flamingo

Unit 5: Working with 10

  • The great Santa Flamingo picnic
  • Little Juan goes to the bank
  • Little Juan’s birthday
  • A counting in tens song
  • The road to Santa Flamingo

Unit 6: Number patterns

  • Counting in twos with the Elves and the Shoemaker
  • Sharing out the toys
  • Counting in fives
  • Party patterns
  • Number patterns detectives

Unit 7: Teens and beyond

  • A tomato errand
  • The bus to Santa Flamingo
  • Pass the marbles
  • The Santa Flamingo hundred square
  • The bee song

Unit 8: More number puzzles

  • The Santa Flamingo stores
  • Double trouble
  • How many would half be?
  • The old tap on the head trick
  • The hotel lift

Unit 9: Shape and position

  • A house of shapes
  • Mama’s china trail
  • Changing shapes
  • Tanto gets lost
  • Where is Tanto?

Unit 10: Time

  • The magnificent spider race
  • Little Juan learns about ‘half past’
  • Little Juan’s busy evening
  • Clocks everywhere!
  • Little Juan’s week

 

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February '09
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