Dr Paul Swan’s Maths Manipulatives
This collection of Dr Paul Swan’s clever hands-on maths manipulatives such as school friendly playing cards, spinner boards, work cards, and more makes learning mathematics fun and engaging for the children.
This collection of Dr Paul Swan’s clever hands-on maths manipulatives such as school friendly playing cards, spinner boards, work cards, and more makes learning mathematics fun and engaging for the children.
The School Friendly Playing Cards are numbered 0 – 13 and come in 4 colours to represent suits: green squares, yellow rectangles, blue circles, and brown triangles. The cards are specially designed to provide a simplistic form of pattern recognition that can help younger students develop their maths skills with ease.
The school friendly cards also come in a jumbo size which is perfect for classroom demonstration.
For ideas to maximise the usage of this resource, please visit Dr Paul Swan’s maths books page. Alternatively, you can also purchase the School Friendly Playing Cards Kit.
ROWCO (short for ‘rows and columns’) is a card-based strategy game using the principles of addition and subtraction to reach the highest score possible. This is a school-friendly version of the conventional playing cards - positive and negative numbers are used to denote the value of each card.
For ideas to maximise the usage of this resource, please visit Dr Paul Swan’s maths books page.
The COMBO Playing Cards are designed to teach students basic numeracy, such as addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. These cards are ideal to be played in upper primary and lower secondary schools.
For ideas to maximise the usage of this resource, please visit Dr Paul Swan’s maths books page.
Spinner boards make a quiet alternative to dice as the spinners are self-contained and don’t make noise when used. This is ideal for the classroom environment, particularly if you have multiple students/groups working on activities at the same time.
Our collection of Dr Paul Swan’s spinner boards covers topics such as place value, number and probability whilst the mixed pack is a combination of the number and probability spinner boards.
This probability pack has you covered for all things probability, including 6-sided dotted dice, 19mm transparent counters, 25mm two-colour counters, square colour tiles, round transparent spinners, 20c coins, drawstring bag, and school friendly playing card in a durable zip wallet. The wide variety of materials allow the pack to be used in different ways.
Includes a coversheet with ideas to use these materials to its full potential.