Resources

Equipment

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Fractions & Decimals, Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Everyday Visual Models Sleeve

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA004, ACMNA015, ACMNA055, ACMNA079, ACMNA103, ACMNA126.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe-5NA, MA1-5NA, MA2-5NA, MA3-7NA.

Equipment

Focus Area
Multiplication & Division

Resource Type
Everyday Visual Models Sleeve

Year Level
Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA031, ACMNA032, ACMNA056, ACMNA075.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA1-6NA, MA2-6NA.

Equipment
Whiteboard Sleeves

Focus Area

Resource Type

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• A range of 4 bright colours, (4.5 x 7.3 x 2.0) cm.
• How packaged: I keep my 30 erasers and 40 black student markers together in one container for quick and easy strategic distribution to students by myself as the teacher.
• Where stored: On your designated maths resources shelf in your classroom.

Student small whiteboard erasers available from

• Elizabeth Richards (Anita recommends): Pack of 10 for $16.45 ($1.65 each). Incl GST as at 23/11/2024.

Equipment
Whiteboard Sleeves

Focus Area

Resource Type

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• As the tiny white erasers at the end are not high quality, they damage the surface of whiteboard insert sleeves as they leave ink marks behind when you erase. Therefore, I remove them and purchase separate high-quality small student erasers.
• How packaged: I keep my 40 black student markers and 30 student erasers together in one container for quick and easy strategic distribution to students by myself as the teacher.
• Where stored: On your designated maths shelf in your classroom.

Student black whiteboard markers available from

• Elizabeth Richards (Anita recommends): Each pen with lid measures 11 cm. $5.45 for a pack of 10 ($0.55 each). Incl GST as at 23/11/2024.
• NOTE: These are designed to last for a short period of time (I love this idea because if students don’t put the lids on properly, the ink dries up, then you have to throw away the marker pen!).
• As I use them 3–4 days a week for 3 lessons a day, they last about 7 weeks for me. So buy in bulk and stock up as I do!! As a guide, I recommend 5 per student for the school year.

Equipment
Connecting Cubes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Area, Fractions & Decimals, Length, Multiplication & Division, Patterns & Algebra, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• Contents: One set of 100 cubes that connect in one direction, plastic, 2 cm, 10 colours.
• How used: Most often, one bag of 100 cubes per group of 4 students. For intervention I use 1-2 bags per student.
• How packaged: 10 ‘loose blocks’ of the one colour are connected to make ‘towers of 10’. 10 different coloured towers are then placed into a snap lock bag (22 x 25) cm to make a ‘bag of 100’.
• How store a class kit of 1000: 10 sets (10 bags) of 100 stored in a clear tub. Tub placed on a designated maths shelf in the classroom.

Available from

• Snap lock bag: Big W and supermarkets Eg. Woolworths, $2.99, Hercules Medium Twin Zip, 15 pack.
• Connecting Cubes that connect in three directions: ‘Linking Cubes’, 1000 pieces in a container Modern Teaching Aids, Product code TFC30115. $131.95 (incl GST as at 11/5/2022)

Equipment
Connecting Cubes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Area, Fractions & Decimals, Length, Multiplication & Division, Patterns & Algebra, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• Contents: One set of 100 cubes that connect in one direction, plastic, 2 cm, 10 colours.
• How used: Most often, one bag of 100 cubes per group of 4 students. For intervention I use 1-2 bags per student.
• How packaged: 10 ‘loose blocks’ of the one colour are connected to make ‘towers of 10’. 10 different coloured towers are then placed into a snap lock bag (22 x 25) cm to make a ‘bag of 100’.
• How to store a class kit of 1000 cubes: 10 sets (10 bags) of 100 stored in a clear tub. Tub placed on a designated maths shelf in the classroom.

Available from

• Snap lock bag: Big W and supermarkets Eg. Woolworths, $2.99, Hercules Medium Twin Zip, 15 pack.
• Connecting Cubes that connect in one direction: ‘SimFit’, 1000 pieces in a container Modern Teaching Aids, Product code TFC13416. $109.95 (incl GST as at 11/5/2022)

Equipment
Connecting Cubes, Number Lines

Focus Area
Fractions & Decimals, Multiplication & Division

Resource Type
Everyday Visual Models Sleeve, Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 6

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA031, ACMNA078, ACMNA127

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA1-6NA, MA1-2WM, MA1-3WM, MA2-7NA, MA3-7NA, MA3-1WM, MA3-2WM.

Equipment

Focus Area
Multiplication & Division

Resource Type
Everyday Visual Models Sleeve, Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 2, Year 4

NSW Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2012) Content

• Year 2 (Stage 1, Part 2), dot point 1: model multiplication as repeated addition, eg. 3 groups of 4 is the same as 4 + 4 + 4.
• Year 2 (Stage 1, Part 2), dot point 1 Working Mathematically (Communicating): use empty number lines and number charts to record repeated add
• Year 4 (Stage 2, Part 2), dot point 3c: use mental strategies to build multiplication facts to at least 10 x 10 including using doubling and repeated doubling as a strategy to multiply by 2, 4 and 8 eg 7 x 8 is double 7, double again and then double again.

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA031, ACMNA075

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA1-6NA, MA2-6NA

Equipment

Focus Area

Resource Type
Conference keynotes

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Synopsis
How to create whole-school maths passion, for K-8 educators:
– Find out what it takes to engage the whole school, and whole child, in mathematics
– What are the most successful whole school strategies for maths engagement?
– How can schools fall in love with maths, for the first time ever, and again and again?

Presenter: Anita Chin – Founder and Learning Strategist, Anita Chin Mathematics Consultancy

Equipment

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Fractions & Decimals, Multiplication & Division, Two-Dimensional Space, Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Classroom space | ChinROOM

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Equipment
Dice & Spinners

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Chance, Integers, Multiplication & Division, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Tips for making your equipment classroom friendly

• Contents: Double Dot Dice x4; 0-9 Double Dice x12; 1-20 Double Dice x12.
• How packaged: All dice are stored in a Fischer clear, hinge-lid, small 1 compartment, shallow storage container (18.8 x 11.8 x 3.) cm.

Available from

• Double-Dot Dice (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Modern Teaching Aids $1.76 each, 25 mm. Note (11/5/2022): this item may no longer be available. Alternatively, students can use two dot dice.
• 0-9 Double Dice (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Modern Teaching Aids $2.15 each. Note (11/5/2022): this item may no longer be available. Alternatively, students can use two 0–9 dice.
• 1–20 Double Dice (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Modern Teaching Aids $2.15 each. Note (11/5/2022): this item may no longer be available. Alternatively, students can use two 1–20 dice.
• Container (GST incl as at 11/5/2022): ‘Fischer’ small, shallow 1 compartment, (18.8 x 11.8 x 3.1) cm:
  On-line Plastics, product code 1H-031, $2.50
  Howards Storage World, $5.95
  Modern Teaching Aids, $6.55.

Equipment
Dice & Spinners

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2

Tips for making your equipment classroom friendly

• Contents: Double Dot Dice x16; 0–9 Double Dice x12.
• How packaged: All dice are stored in a Fischer clear, hinge-lid, small 1 compartment, shallow storage container (18.8 x 11.8 x 3.1) cm.

Available from

• Double-Dot Dice (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Modern Teaching Aids $1.76 each, 25 mm. Note (11/5/2022): this item may no longer be available. Alternatively, students can use two dot dice.
• 0–9 Double Dice (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Modern Teaching Aids $2.15 each. Note (11/5/2022): this item may no longer be available. Alternatively, students can use two 0–9 dice.
• Container (GST incl as at 11/5/2022): ‘Fischer’ small, shallow 1 compartment, (18.8 x 11.8 x 3.1) cm:
  On-line Plastics, product code 1H-031, $2.50
  Howards Storage World, $5.95
  Modern Teaching Aids, $6.55.

Equipment
Dominoes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 3

Activity Idea

• Knowledge and skills developed: Students add three or more single-digit numbers
• Knowledge and skills developed: Students model and apply the associative property of addition to aid mental computation,
• Grouping: pairs
• Instructions: Students create a ‘domino snake’ as shown in the photo. All sides of the snake must have 3 addends that make 12.
  eg. top horizontal side: 6 + 2 + 4 = 12
  eg. bottom vertical side: 5 + 5 + 2 = 12
• Dominoes shown available from ORIGO Education. They are exceptionally durable. Each set of 55 dominoes is packaged in a classroom friendly box with a lid. Each domino is (50 x 100) mm. $23.95 (30/4/2022)

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA055

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA2-5NA

Equipment
Dominoes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinWIPE

Year Level
Year 3

Activity Idea

• Knowledge and skills developed: Students add three or more single-digit numbers
• Knowledge and skills developed: Students model and apply the associative property of addition to aid mental computation.
• Grouping: individual
• Instructions: Students make a ‘domino train’ that has 3 carriages (3 dominoes) and 18 passengers (18 dots in total) as shown. Next, they draw their train. Then they write a number sentence to represent their train.
  eg. (second train): 6 + 2 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 0 = 18. Lastly, they prove there are 18 passengers on their train by applying the associative property of addition (you can add numbers in any order) to aid mental computation and then record their thinking
  eg. 6 + 2 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 0 = 6 + 4 + 2 + 5 + 1 = 10 + 8 = 18
• Whiteboard insert sheet shown can be downloaded from Anita’s printable ‘Addition and Subtraction Using Double-Nine Dot Dominoes‘.
• Dominoes shown are from ORIGO Education. They are exceptionally durable. Each set of 55 dominoes is packaged in a classroom friendly box with a lid. Dominoes are (50 x 100) mm. $26.35 (14/4/2023)

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA055

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA2-5NA

Equipment
Dominoes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinWIPE

Year Level
Year 3

Activity Idea

• Knowledge and skills developed: Students add three or more single-digit numbers
• Knowledge and skills developed: Students model and apply the associative property of addition to aid mental computation,
  eg 4 + 2 + 1 + 5 = 5 + 2 + 5 = 10 + 2 = 12
• Whiteboard insert sheet shown can be downloaded from Anita’s printable ‘Addition and Subtraction Using Double-Nine Dot Dominoes‘ and found on page 5.

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA055

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA2-5NA

Equipment
Dominoes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinMAKE, Task template | ChinMAT

Year Level
Year 1

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• How used: One mat per pair (seated next to each other) with a set of 55 double-nine dot dominoes.
• How stored: Class set in a book box placed on a designated maths shelf in the classroom.

Making this DIY resource

1. For each mat: Open the manila folder (buff colour) and draw two large overlapping circles and label as shown in the photograph.
2. For a class set of 30: you will need 15 manila folders.

Materials needed available from

• A4 coloured manila folders, pack of 10, buff, $2.00 (GST incl as at 20/7/2021) from Officeworks.

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA015.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA1-5NA.

Equipment
Number Fans

Focus Area
Fractions & Decimals, Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinMAKE

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA001, ACMNA002, ACMNA012, ACMN013, ACMNA014, ACMNA017, ACMNA026, ACMNA027, ACMNA028, ACMNA034, ACMNA052, ACMNA053, ACMNA072, ACMNA079, ACMNA104, ACMNA128, ACMNA130, ACMNA131.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe-4NA, MA1-4NA MA2-4NA, MA2-7NA, MA3-7NA.

Equipment
Number Cards

Focus Area
Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinMAKE

Year Level
Kindergarten

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA002, ACMNA003.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe4-NA.

Equipment
Dice & Spinners

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Chance, Fractions & Decimals, Integers, Multiplication & Division, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Tips for making your equipment classroom friendly

• Contents: Dot Dice (16 mm) x15; 0-9 Numeral Dice (purple & green) x15; Fraction Tenths Dice (red) x12, Fraction Tenths Equivalent Dice (blue) x12.
• How packaged: All dice stored in a Fischer clear, hinge-lid, small 5 compartment, shallow storage container (18.5 x 11.5 x 3.2) cm.

Available from

• Dot Dice: Jar of 72 dice in a variety of 10 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 10775. $26.35 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• 0–9 Numeral Dice: Jar of 100 dice in a variety of 8 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 12715. $63.20 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• Fractions tenths dice: a variety of 6 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 11366. $0.66 each (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• Fractions tenths equivalent dice: a variety of 6 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 11512. $0.77 each (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• Container (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Howards Storage World, $4.25
  Modern Teaching Aids, $5.45

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA103, ACMNA125, ACMNA134, ACMNA134, ACMSP116, ACMSP145, ACMSP167, ACMSP204, ACMSP205

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA3-6NA, MA3-7NA, MA3-19SP, MA4-21SP

Equipment
Dice & Spinners

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Fractions & Decimals, Multiplication & Division, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 3, Year 4

Tips for making your equipment classroom friendly

• Contents: Dot Dice (16 mm) x12; 0-9 Numeral Dice (orange & black) x12; 1-20 Numeral Dice x12, Fraction Tenths Dice (green) x6, Fraction Tenths Equivalent Dice (yellow) x6.
• How packaged: All dice stored in a Fischer clear, hinge-lid, small 5 compartment, shallow storage container (18.5 x 11.5 x 3.2) cm.
• How stored: Stacked on a designated maths shelf in the classroom.

Available from

• Dot Dice: Jar of 72 dice in a variety of 10 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 10775. $26.35 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• 0–9 Numeral Dice: Jar of 100 dice in a variety of 8 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 12715. $63.20 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• 1–20 Numeral Dice: 50 pieces in a variety of 8 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 12711. $30.31 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• Container (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Howards Storage World, $4.25
  Modern Teaching Aids, $5.45

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA052, ACMNA053, ACMNA055, ACMNA056, ACMNA072, ACMNA073, ACMNA075, ACMNA076, ACMNA079

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MA2-4NA, MA2-5NA, MA2-6NA, MA2-7NA

Equipment
Dice & Spinners

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2

Tips for making your equipment classroom friendly

• Contents: Dot Dice (16 mm) x30; 0-9 Numeral Dice x12; 1-20 Numeral Dice x8, 1-30 Numeral Die x1.
• How packaged: All dice stored in a Fischer clear, hinge-lid, small 5 compartment, shallow storage container (18.5 x 11.5 x 3.2) cm.

Available from

• Dot Dice: Jar of 72 dice in a variety of 10 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 10775. $26.35 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• 0–9 Numeral Dice: Jar of 100 dice in a variety of 8 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 12715. $63.20 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• 1–20 Numeral Dice: 50 pieces in a variety of 8 colours, Modern Teaching Aids. Product Code 12711. $30.31 (GST incl as at 13/9/2022).
• Container (GST incl as at 2/2/19):
  Howards Storage World, $4.25
  Modern Teaching Aids, $5.45

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA003, ACMNA004, ACMNA012, ACMNA013, ACMNA14, ACMNA015, ACMNA027, ACMNA028, ACMNA029, ACMNA031

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe-4NA, MAe-5NA, MA1-4NA, MA1-5NA, MA1-6NA

Equipment

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 3

Equipment

Focus Area
Multiplication & Division, Position, Two-Dimensional Space

Resource Type
Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 2

Equipment
Place Value Arrows

Focus Area
Fractions & Decimals, Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinMAKE

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA289, ACMNA013, ACMNA014, ACMNA027, ACMNA028, ACMNA052, ACMNA053, ACMNA072, ACMNA079, ACMNA104.

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe-4NA, MA1-4NA, MA2-4NA, MA2-7NA, MA3-7NA.

Equipment
Ten Frames

Focus Area
Whole Numbers

Resource Type
Task printables | ChinMAKE

Year Level
Kindergarten

Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions
ACMNA003

NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus outcomes
MAe-4NA

Equipment
Connecting Cubes

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction, Area, Fractions & Decimals, Multiplication & Division, Three-Dimensional Space, Whole Numbers

Resource Type

Year Level
Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Tips for making your equipment classroom-friendly

• Contents: Class kit of 1000 cubes that connect in 3 directions on six faces, plastic, 2 cm, 10 colours.
• How used: Most often, one bag of 100 cubes per group of 4 students. For intervention, I use 1-5 bags per student.
• How packaged: 10 ‘loose blocks’ of the one colour are connected to make ‘towers of 10’. 10 different coloured towers are then placed into a snap lock bag (22 x 25) cm to make a ‘bag of 100’. 10 bags are then placed into a 12 L clear tub with clip-on lid to make a ‘tub of 1000’.
• How stored: Class kit stacked on a designated maths shelf in the classroom.

Available from

• Connecting Cubes (GST incl as at 26/5/18):
  Elizabeth Richards, $224.50
  Modern Teaching Aids, $131.95, often not available.
• Container (GST incl as at 26/5/18):
  Modern Teaching Aids, $11.50, 12 L clear tub with clip-on lid.
• Snap lock bag Eg. Woolworths, $2.99, Hercules Medium Twin Zip, 15 pack.

Equipment

Focus Area

Resource Type
Classroom space | ChinROOM

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

Classroom-friendly equipment storage tips K-8

Welcome to my office! This is how I store all my whole-class sets of maths equipment that I use K-8.

• I package most of my equipment in Fischer hinge-lid clear storage boxes (available from Howards Storage World) so that everything easily ‘stacks and packs’ in a small space.
• More importantly, I can quickly find what I need as you can see through the clear containers.
• My 5 by 5 cube shelving unit (182 x 182) cm is from Ikea! This ‘Kallax Shelving Unit’  comes in a range of different sizes and colours from Ikea (as at 1/3/20).

Equipment

Focus Area
Multiplication & Division

Resource Type
Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 5, Year 6

Equipment

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Year 2, Year 3

Equipment

Focus Area
Addition & Subtraction

Resource Type
Written recordings | ChinWRITE

Year Level
Kindergarten, Year 1