There’s a difference between being good at maths in the abstract, and being good at it in practice. Addition and subtraction number stories encourage children to practise Maths and problem-solving in a more engaging way. Rather than completing a repetitive list of sums, they get to apply their learning to practical problems and make use of their imaginations.

These word problem challenge cards have 12 fabulous addition and subtraction number stories to help your children practise Maths and prepare for tests. The fun scenarios talk about tasty treats, cute animals, a birthday party and more. You’ll find answers to them all at the end of the document. There are 24 cakes and six children. They share them equally. How many do they have each?’ Fractions You might want to take a look at some of our other resources on number facts to help your children. We have a variety of resources that will make maths fun! Special note: If your child is having problems with number stories because of their reading level, I would encourage you to talk to their teacher. He/she can give you strategies to help. Plus, it is always helpful to make sure that both you and your child’s teacher are aware of the areas where your child struggles. At home, you can help them by reading through the problems together. Help them learn the words that come up often (ex: more, less) and work with them to find word clues. They have the ability to learn this if given the tools to help. You’ve got this parents. Now that we have answered the question, what is a number story, tryone of these activities for more number story practice: One sunny day two friends went for a walk. They met up with three or four other people. Then five minutes later six other friends walked with them for seven kilometres. Eight or nine days later, ten of these people met up again but this time they were at the beach.

For example, ‘a cat gives birth to three cute kittens, and then one more. How many does she have?’ This will get an ‘ahh’ out of many children, because they respond to the cuteness of the kittens.

Stories leave a deeper impression in our minds than just talking about numbers. Stories Are Emotive One night there were two people walking in the park. Three more came and they went to sit down. Then four people left to go home. The next day five people went to the park and six more people came, and they all went home to have seven or eight sandwiches. At night they had nine biscuits and ten more sandwiches.Children really understand sharing through a story, because it is something they experience all the time in life. The Enormous Turnip– In this, the man tries to pull the turnip out. Then the man and his wife (one more). Then the man and his wife and the dog. Each time there is one more. Verbal stories are good for this – e.g. Simon has three chocolates, then he eats one. How many does he have? Mark-Making Toxic stress also triggers the part of our brain that controls the fight, flight, or freeze response.

This is one of the best ways of using numbers stories and one of the most common. They get children thinking! One night there were two ghosts underneath my bed. Three vampires were in the roof. Then I looked out side and saw four witches. Then there were five monsters. Then I saw six or seven mummies. After that there were eight aliens and nine or ten wolves. This resource provides your children with a lovely visual representation of number facts of 10, and asks them to write out the calculations. By representing the number facts of 10 in a story, children will be able to master this aspect of maths in no time! One day, two big boys were walking. Then came three big dinosaurs running around a house. Four hours later, seven little birds came flying in the sky. Then eight elephants came marching on the roof. An hour later the big dinosaurs fell asleep. Then ten boys went tiptoeing home. When teaching addition EYFS we recommend using this first, then, now structure with the children. This structure allows children to tell mathematical stories and place these addition calculations into meaningful context. This resource contains a variety of different calculations and different stories all told visually through the first, then, now structure. Children can tell the story, using the language of first, then and now and complete the number sentence. Representing an addition calculation in this way encourages language and the understanding the they are adding more to a group of objects.Any simple object you can think of, try to draw it and count at the same time. Next Step Number Stories

Make up a story! For example, ‘One day a magic bird flew through the forest. It flew over three hills.’ (All try to draw three simple hills.) ‘Then it saw the monster with four red eyes!’ (Draw the red eyes)

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You can also have your kidsdraw the number story to help them come up with the number model even if their homework doesn’t ask them to do that step. Help them draw the problem on scrap paper if they need the additional visual help. Third: Fill in the unit box. All of our resources are easy to use, just press the green button, print off your resource, and you are ready to go! 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 The first introduction to calculating often comes through finding one more and one less, and this is one of the best uses of number stories.