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Dot patterns assist students with developing number sense. Dice and dot pattern cards are a good classroom resource to use. This is a resource for your to use with students who are perceptual counters. Subitising dot patterns and recognising visual images of numbers will help create figurative images of numbers. The dot plates or flash cards can be used as teaching tools, for Number Talks, small group and paired activities. Some dice games are also included.

Short, Focussed and Frequent numeracy activities to play with your whole class to support numeracy acquisition and develop deep number sense. Skills these activities will practice are - numeral identification, number sequences, addition and subtraction and multiplication and place value.

Ask your students "Tell me how many you see?" " How do you see that many?" Listen and record their thinking. Number Talks are 5 to 15 minute opportunities to developing efficient, flexible, and accurate computational strategies that build upon the key fundamental ideas of mathematics such as composition and decomposition of numbers, our system of tens, and the application of properties. Classroom conversations and discussions around purposefully crafted computation problems are at the very cor