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Graph Square | Teaching Tools | Toy Theater Educational Games

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Use color squares on a graph. Useful for teaching number sense, addition, and subtraction.

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Online manipulatives bring all of the learning and fun without the mess. Our math virtual manipulatives help students grasp abstract concepts through modeling. Literacy virtual manipulatives create a fun space for practicing spelling, rhyming, and more!

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Virtual Manipulatives | Mathematical Modelling | Toy Theater

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Original teaching tools aimed at supporting teachers in the elementary school classroom. Two color counters, 3D dice, probability spinners, graph builders, fraction bars, base ten blocks, and more!

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Discover Mathigon, the Mathematical Playground. Learning mathematics has never been so interactive and fun!

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How to use

Type in the times table you'd like to work with-this can be a non-integer if desired.

Use the slider to adjust the number of parts that the counting stick is divided into.

Choose from four colours to set an alternating colour scheme.

Click on question marks to reveal their values; click on values to hide them.

Use the buttons at the top right to hide or reveal all values.

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Interactive counting stick – BossMaths.com

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Type in the times table you’d like to work with—this can be a non-integer if desired.

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Use this applet to create patterns to cover the screen using regular polygons.

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Didax Manipulatives (Very Good Resource) 

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Didax Manipulatives (Very Good Resource) 

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Hands-On Math Goes Digital In and Beyond the Classroom!

Explore Our Collection of FREE Virtual Manipulatives

From Number Lines to Base Ten, Pattern Blocks to Place Value, Disks our collection of free Virtual Manipulatives gives educators and families access to visual and hands-on digital resources that lead to understanding. Students can use these resources in class and at home to practice math concepts, reinforce their growing math understanding, technology they love in the process.

Free Resources & Instructions for Teachers and Families

We've developed these resources for easy access and easy use:

How-To Videos

There's a short video for each of the Virtual Manipulatives in our collection so teachers can use these digital materials easily and confidently with students.
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Activities

Activities from the Didax books that teachers use most for easy download. Engaging challenges address core math operations, concepts and skills, from early numeracy all the way to introductory geometry and algebra.
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FAQ

Download this document of FAQ's to answer your Virtual Manipulative questions.
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Demonstrate key math concepts in your classroom using our new virtual manipulatives!

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Free virtual manipulatives for schools ideal for Interactive white board

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Visnos demonstrations page - free activities to explore mathematical concepts using virtual manipulatives. Online math activities using fractions, decimals, percentages, multiplication tables, division, telling the time, angles, polygons, factors and multiples.

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Esti Mysteries (Great Mathematical Puzzles)

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Esti Mysteries (Great Mathematical Puzzles)

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Steve Wyborney\\\'s Blog: I\\\'m on a Learning Mission.

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Introducing Esti-Mysteries! Each image invites students to wonder what number is represented by the image. As you click through the each Esti-Mystery, clues will appear that will allow the students to use math concepts to narrow the set of possibilities to a small set of numbers. In the end, the students will need to call upon their estimation skills to solve the mystery and find the missing number.

NOTE: In addition, to these original Esti-Mysteries, you may also want to visit the brand new post 51 Esti-Mysteries.

Here is an example:

Download the Esti-Mysteries, try them in your class, and let me know about your experience.

Update: Here are 4 Printable Esti-Mystery Charts you may enjoy using with Esti-Mysteries.

Update: Here is the Full Set of Esti-Mystery Clues (without images) to allow you to browse through the Esti-Mystery Concepts.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @stevewyborney

After reading this blog post, take a look at THE 12 MOST POPULAR MATH STRATEGIES AND DOWNLOADS ON THIS BLOG.
Esti-Mystery #1 The First Mystery Esti-Mystery #2

Esti-Mystery #3

Esti-Mystery #4 ***This is the one where the numbers on the dice are first used as a clue.
Esti-Mystery #5

Esti-Mystery #6
***The most challenging one yet!

Esti-Mystery #7 "The Dice Jam"

Esti-Mystery #8 "Bright Beads"Esti-Mystery #9 "Cupside Down"Esti-Mysteries #10 "Yellow Yarn"
Esti-Mystery: The Smaller Numbers Request
Esti-Mystery: "Sinker?" (from The Smaller Numbers Series)Other Posts and Resources Which May Be of Interest
***This one that may lead to the greatest debate and surprise at the end.

Tiled Area Questions
The Smaller Number Series

This next Esti-Mysteries was requested for a kindergarten class. Enjoy!

***This is a great one to use with kindergarten students.

51 Esti-Mysteries - 51 (fifty-one!) brand new Esti-Mysteries which I've already started posting .

Splat! (50 downloadable, animated lessons)

The Fraction Splat! Series (with 20 more downloadable lessons)

Splat! for Google Slides (This is the one you want if you don't have PowerPoint but do have Google Slides.)

Cube Conversations (80 downloadable, animated lessons)

Thank you for visiting my blog!

All my best,

Steve

P.S. Please feel free to post your reflections in the comments below.

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Esti-Mysteries: Estimation Meets Math Mysteries - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Introducing Esti-Mysteries! Each image invites students to wonder what number is represented by the image. As you click through the each Esti-Mystery, clues

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Number Pieces by The Math Learning Center

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Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

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Two Color Counter Double Ten Frame » Toy Theater | Learn • Create • Play

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These general interactive resources can be used in a variety of contexts in the primary classroom to support learners working on mathematics.

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, worksheets and an illustrated dictionary. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Sharing in an app allows educators to pose problems and investigations for students by using an 8-character code or link. Students can share their thinking with their teachers and classmates. Share codes remain available for continued use for 18 months from the date they are last accessed.
Watch the video to learn how sharing works.

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Sharing in an app allows educators to pose problems and investigations for students by using an 8-character code or link. Students can share their thinking with their teachers and classmates. Share codes remain available for continued use for 18 months from the date they are last accessed.

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Curriculum Concepts: Sets and Operations

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Curriculum Concepts: Sets and Operations

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A different Mathematics lesson starter for each day of the year designed to engage learners with a range of puzzles, exercises and creative ideas. Click on a date in the calendar above for the Starter Of The Day.

You can embed the Starter Of The Day calendar into your own school website or blog.

"I have used your website for the last four years for free and felt guilty every time I used it as it is so brilliant and I feel guilty getting something so good for free. It has changed the way I teach (and after 35 years of teaching that is a real achievement). I now think it is time I paid for the pleasure of using the site."

Clive, UK

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A different Mathematics lesson starter for each day of the year designed to engage learners with a range of puzzles, exercises and creative ideas.

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Fraction walls are a great way to teach about fractions and in particular equivalent fractions. In a fraction wall each row or layer of the wall represents one whole number. The layers are divided into a number of bricks and hence each brick represents a fraction whose denominator is equal to the number of bricks in that layer. Each brick can be turned on or off by clicking it. This wall also allows the display of decimal and percentage values. To the right of the wall are boxes which can be hidden, the value of each box is fraction of the wall that has been turned on.

Selecting different walls

When you launch this interactive teaching program the initial wall is a mixed one showing 3 distinct fraction families. Change the wall by using the mode control. 'Large' displays a wall in which the layers are split 1,2,3 up to 12. The others split the wall along 2s, 3s or 5s. The 5s also includes a lower wall of 100 bricks, this naturally works quite well in explaining percentages since each brick represent ¹⁄ ₁₀₀ or 1%.

Fractions, decimals or percentages

Use the display type control to display decimals (rounded to 2dp), percentages (rounded to 1dp), fractions or none.

The equivalent fraction control

Normally when you click a brick to turn it on or off, only that brick is affected. However if you turn on the equivalent fraction function by clicking the 'Eq' toggle button. Now when a brick is clicked the other layers will turn on bricks if they can match an equivalent fraction. Note, this is not always possible, in fact if you select the primes wall it is never possible to show an equivalent fraction. In this case all the other layers have bricks turned off.

Least Common Multiple

Also known as 'the lowest common multiple' or 'smallest common multiple' is crucial when adding, subtracting or comparing fractions. This button will calculate the LCM based on the rows that have active bricks. Pressing the LCM button will create a new wall that contains the originally selected fraction but also a new layer with the number of divisions equalling the least common multiple of the denominators of the other rows. Sounds complicated, but it really just means that it is always possible to create an equivalent fraction in the LCM row from the other rows.

Other controls

The other controls are

'On' button when clicked will turn on all the bricks

'Off' button when clicked will turn off all the bricks

'Random' button creates a randomized wall in which roughly half the bricks are on. Usually you would hide the totals before pressing this and then the class can work out each fraction in the random wall.

' < ' button will align all the bricks to the left hand side of the wall. This is often pressed after using the randomize function. Fractions can then be compared by considering the length of each row of on bricks.

hide totals click to hide all the totals. The individuals total can then be clicked to show the value.

show totals reveal all the totals.

Advanced Section

To show or hide the advanced section click the advanced toggle button

When the advance controls are on, each layer of the wall has a dedicated slider, move this to change the number the number of bricks in that layer.

Automatic 1 button when clicked create a new wall by dividing the top layer by all its ascending prime factors. So for example if you move the top slider so the top layer has 42 bricks and then click the button. The primefactors of 42 are 2,3 and 7. So the second layer will have 42÷2=21 bricks, the third layer will have 21÷3=7 bricks and the final layer will have 7÷7= 1 brick.

Automatic 2 is similar but creates a layer for every factor of the top layer value.

Add Layer adds a new layer to the bottom of the wall.

total type select control will change the type of total to display. The default is to match what the wall shows, so in this case if the wall is showing fraction the total will be a fraction. But using this control it is now possible for fractions to be shown in the wall but the total to be given as a percentage.

Further fractions

Closely related to this activity is the percentage fraction and decimals grid, which can be used to display a square or circle fraction representation.

Other activities that can be used to teach fractions are the clock activity which uses the clock face to show the fraction of minutes passed in an hour. Launch the activity and select the fractions mode, this mode also show equivalent fractions for example ³⁰⁄ ₆₀ = ¹⁄ ₂. The number explorer activity can show the fraction resulting from division of a number.

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Interactive Fraction Wall | online fraction | percentage | decimal | visnos

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Online fraction wall, easily display fractions using interactive white board. Simple to explore fraction,decimals and percentages . Step by step view equivalent fractions. Beautiful display which children love.

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Using fraction circles to teach fractions is as easy as pie! Using the idea of pie is actually a great way to familiarize students with the idea of fractions. With fraction circles, children can imagine dividing a pie into equal pieces and show that visually.

To use the fraction circles, simply click and drag the colored pieces onto the circles. You can remove pieces by simply clicking them and dragging them out of the circles. By using different colors for each fraction, we made it easy for students to compare them.

Use these interactive fraction circles with your students to explore equivalent fractions, common denominators, and mixed numbers. You can show students a mixed, simple, or improper fraction and then ask students to model it using the fraction circles. Students can also model operations with fractions using fraction circles.

Looking for more fraction resources? Check out our fraction bars and fraction strips

Visit classplayground.com for more resources and printables related to fraction circles.

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Fraction Circles | Free Virtual Manipulatives | Toy Theater

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These interactive manipulative online fraction circles make teaching fractions as easy as pie! Model from 1/12th to 1 whole.

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PMC - Oide - Welcome to the Primary Mathematics Curriculum Hub

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Maths is everywhere and for everyone.

Welcome to our support materials for schools page, designed for schools seeking dynamic resources. Explore a rich collection of practical resources presented in information sheets with useful links and image galleries providing ready-to-use materials for your school.

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Support Materials for Schools - PMC - Oide

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Welcome to our support materials for schools page, designed for schools seeking dynamic resources.

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Welcome to our Exemplars page, a treasure trove of potential learning experiences carefully chosen to inspire teachers and engage pupils.

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Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks

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Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for teachers of Years 1 to 6. It asks ten random questions on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ordering, partitioning, digit values and more. Ideal for use on a IWB and as a starter or plenary activity.

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Looking for free single-player and multiplayer games for learning and practicing multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division? Check out Multiplication.com's library of 100+ games, where there's something for every learner.

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Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help

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Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents.

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"Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered. Check it out at https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm. "
--Shannon Jakeman , sjakeman.blogspot.com

"Online math games, like the ones that you'll find for free at Sheppard Software, provide a valuable opportunity for children to learn a great deal while they're having fun. The games at Sheppard Software are well written, interactive and very fun to play.

It can be very difficult for parents to find productive and worthwhile activities for children on the Internet; however fun online math games do offer a wonderful alternative.

This free section of Sheppard Software was written for children. Mostly all of the material you'll find at the site is completely free for kids to use. These fun online math games cover all of the math fundamentals, including early math, basic and mixed operations, fractions, pre-algebra, dollars & cents and place value. While teachers often use worksheets to solidify the math concepts learned in the classroom, these sort of games actually have the same educational impact on the child, and the format of the examples as an exciting game keeps the child engaged, interested and coming back for more.

From the main page parents or children will find a simple and easy to navigate menu featuring the different levels of math games and the various math concepts that are available. Children from pre-k up to 8th grade will find fun online math games that teach important math skills that are appropriate for their age level.

Sheppard Software offers a couple of cute games for the youngest math students. In this game, called Bugabaloo Addition, children are shown a number of "bug shoes" on the left and the right. The game asks the child to add the two groups of shoes together, and then pick the bug with the correct number printed on it. This game teaches addition through a graphical display that lets the child see and count the shoes. With the numbers right underneath, children easily make the association between the visual cues and the act of addition.

For slightly older kids, there are a number of very popular arcade-style "popup" math games. In these games, the child is presented with a math problem and must find the creature that's holding the correct answer and smack it on the head with the hammer. The comical expression the creature makes and the sound effects make this game so fun that children will forget that they're learning math! "
--Written March 30, 2010 by Ryan Dube in Educational Freeware -- Reviews of the best learning games, software, and websites --http://www.educational-freeware.com/online/sheppard-math.aspx

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Practice addition, multiplication, fractions and algebraic reasoning with our popular math games. Discover fun learning games kids love to play.

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

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Math Games, Math Worksheets and Practice Quizzes

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Math games online that practice math skills using fun interactive content. Over 1000 free skill testing apps and games - tablet and chromebook friendly.

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Interactive Clock | Analog Clock | Digital | Movable | Teaching Clock | Visnos

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Visnos interactive clock. Simple tool to teach telling the time using a colorful classroom analog clock. Show equivalent digital clock time. Learn about hours, minutes, and seconds step by step. Simply click and drag the movable hands. The clock can also be used to teach about fractions and angles.

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

AGE

6-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Times Tables Division Number Bonds Doubles Halves Square Numbers

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubles, halves, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Superb!

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Multiplication, here we come! This interactive times table is perfect for 3rd-graders (or others) who are in the midst of memorizing their multiplication facts.

How does it work?

Simply drag the numbers to answer each multiplication problem. When you complete a full table correctly, a check mark will appear on the number buttons at the top. To try a new table, click another number button.

Working through the times tables in this way will help students memorize important multiplication facts. Plus, working on one complete times table can help students see patterns. For example, when working through the 4 times table, students will see that each answer is 4 more than the previous answer.

Working with an interactive multiplication table is also a great way to reinforce concepts such as skip counting or repeated addition.

As an extra activity, you could even ask students to make their own physical times table. Students can use a piece of paper for the equations and small squares of paper for the answers. Then, students can check their answers using the interactive times table!

Visit classplayground.com for more printables and games related to times tables.

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Times Table " Toy Theater | Learn * Create * Play

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Memorizing the times tables has never been easier or more fun! This free interactive tool helps students develop a deep understanding of multiplication.

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Fun way to learn the times tables with games and grids to download.

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Algebra Games (Quick Math and Four Wheel Fracas)

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Algebra Games (Quick Math and Four Wheel Fracas)

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Basic algebra serves as the foundation for a host of more complex mathematical processes, so obtaining a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts is an absolute necessity before moving on to more advanced techniques. The best way to develop this deeper understanding is through repetition, and children are more likely to want to put the time in when they're actually having fun.

Our free algebra games were developed to be as fun as they are educational. In addition, our videos contain clear and concise explanations of skills that may require special attention. When our games and videos are used together with the worksheets we provide, learning algebra becomes simple!

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Algebra - Free Online Algebra Games, Fun Videos & Worksheets for Kids

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Find free, fun algebra games online with Math Game Time! Learn algebra while having fun with our engaging algebra videos and worksheets for multiple grade levels.

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PMC - Oide - Welcome to the Primary Mathematics Curriculum Hub

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PMC - Oide - Welcome to the Primary Mathematics Curriculum Hub

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Welcome to our Micro Maths page, designed for passionate teachers seeking dynamic resources.