This independent game has been made to use alongside the Numberblocks episode ‘The Legend of Big Tum’, where the Numberblocks meet a mysterious big hairy monster with a big hairy tummy who loves puzzles. They work together to work out who is in Big Tum’s tum! It teaches children how to find missing numbers with the Numberblocks . This is a powerpoint based game that I created to put on the interactive whiteboard for them to play independently. It is for numbers 1-5 and the children can click which number they think is in Big Tum’s tum. It will then take them to a screen to tell them if they are correct or not. If they are incorrect they then go back to try again but if they are correct they go onto the next missing number. The game will cycle back to the beginning once all the numbers are done. At the start I have included the first part of the Numberblocks episode too to give the children an idea of what they must do.

When young children learn new concepts, it is vital that they use real objects in order to ‘play with the maths’ and this will be able them to visualise it once they are familiar with the new concepts. These resources created will compliment this work using pictorial resources in a combination of ways. Half of these contain a peg board format, which means the child has to place a peg on the right answer. This helps with fine motor skills, which in turn will aid mark making skills. The bonus here is an A3 version of the addition stories, where children can use objects of their own to create a story like shown in the examples.