Category Archives: Tools

Math comes to live online

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Phet has done a great job in providing simulations of important concepts for math and science. These tools are great to incorporate in your interventions with students.

Teachers/tutors and parents can register for free and get an explanation on how to work with the site HERE

Read all about it: HERE

Working on visual spatial skills

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Working with a child on their visual spatial insights and skills is best done with blocks and shapes and sitting next to them. In this day and age that is not always feasible so here is a wonderful alternative, fun and well known, the tangram now online.

Read all about it: HERE

Spatial reasoning in early childhood

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The Early Childhood Maths group from the UK shares this wonderful guide about spatial reasoning in early childhood so you can read up on how to actually do this with your child.

Read all about it: HERE

Number sense at mealtime

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The parent page from PBS.org has great recommendations how to turn meal preparation time in the kitchen into a nice motivating activity to boost your child’s number sense.

Read all about it: HERE

Number Sense met Saami games

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Geweldige site , numbershapes met super “Saami” games. Simple fast and helps to recognize numbers. 

Read all about it: HERE