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For example, if five cars are in the car park and three drive away, how can you work out the answer? What maths can you use? What strategies? You will find loads of examples of sheets and ideas that teachers and parents have already created. Find A Picture That Tells A Story

You might like this number bonds to 10 game! This resource is a fun activity that will get children engaged. You could put children into pairs and encourage them to have a go at this game. The baker makes six buns, each with four cherries on. Two buns are sold. How many cherries are left?’ Higher Numbers There are many simple early books that are like a kind of number story. A lot of these have different quantities of things in them. A good example is this book – One Ted Falls Out Of Bed by Julia Donaldson: Number stories are simple descriptions of either real or imagined events that involve numbers. An example might be ‘Tom has three sweets, but eats two. How many does he have?’ They are used as a method of teaching different number skills.There are lots of counting objects, and even some calculating. The music really helps! The more multisensory you can make learning at this stage of life the better. Using Numbers Stones It is important that children learn to apply the abstract knowledge they learn, and number stories offer a brilliant way of doing this. There are 24 cakes and six children. They share them equally. How many do they have each?’ Fractions

Number stories are sometimes called word problems. They’re descriptions of situations where the use of Maths can save the day. Instead of a question being written with +, -, ÷ or ×, it’s hidden within a story. Children have to work out which calculation they need to do before they can find the answer.

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Another example might be ‘The four lady bears each had one husband. How many bears were there?’ Higher Level Number Stories I put the stones into a bag, and a child gets one out. For example, if it was two ladybirds, you say something like ‘One day two ladybirds went on an adventure.’ This lovely resource can help children learn and practise their number facts of 10. This worksheet includes fantastic number bonds stories, so that children can feel more confident with their number facts. Number bonds of 10 are pairs of numbers that when added together provide you with the number 10. Number bonds are also called 'number pairs' or 'number partners.'