These number tracks can help children to recognise the number using the fingers as a representation. These can also be used along side helping hands (gloves filled with sand) to give both concrete and pictorial representations.

Using characters that are familiar to children I have put together a phone book to encourage the children to explore numbers in a different way during their play. Children use this resources alongside a phone so that they can practice matching the numbers on the phone to the ones under the picture of the character that they would like to call.