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Number

Interactive Number Line

Set any range. Drag markers on, add jumps for counting on and back.Year 1–Year 6

Rounding Number Line

Put a number on the line, find halfway, and decide which way it rounds.Year 4–Year 6

Place Value Counters

Drag counters between columns, exchange ten for one, read the total.Year 2–Year 6

How Big Is a Million?

One dot, then ten times as many. Six presses to a million.Year 4–Year 6

Negative Numbers Lift

Send the lift through zero and read the journey as a number sentence.Year 4–Year 6

Estimation Station

Guess how many are in the jar, then count them out in tens.Year 1–Year 6

Interactive 100 Square

Shade, hide and reveal. Multiples, patterns and percentages.Year 1–Year 5

Number Shapes

Drag shapes 1 to 10 onto the mat. Bonds, doubles and odd or even.Reception–Year 3

Dienes Base 10 Blocks

Thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. Build numbers and read the total.Year 2–Year 5

Counters

Drag counters on, sort by colour, arrange them into arrays.Reception–Year 4

Part-Whole Model

Number bonds as a whole and its parts. Cover a circle to ask the question.Reception–Year 4

Number Balance

Equals means the same as, on a beam that tips until it is.Year 1–Year 6

Roman Numerals

Build a numeral from the seven symbols. The board reads it back.Year 4–Year 6

Number Cards

Digit and symbol cards. Build a number, then move it about.Reception–Year 5

Rekenrek

Slide the beads. Five red and five white, so seven reads as five and two.Reception–Year 3

Interactive Ten Frame

Tap to fill. One frame or two, for bonds to ten and to twenty.Reception–Year 2

Calculation

Bar Model

Quantities as lengths. Cover a number to turn the picture into a question.Year 1–Year 6

Long Multiplication

Up to four digits by two, a column at a time, and the zero explained.Year 5–Year 6

Factors and Primes

A number's factors are the rectangles it makes.Year 4–Year 6

Short Multiplication

Multiply by a one digit number, one column at a time.Year 4–Year 6

Short Division

The bus stop method, worked out one digit at a time.Year 4–Year 6

Long Division

Divide by a two digit number, one move at a time.Year 6

Column Addition and Subtraction

Work a column sum out one column at a time, carrying as you go.Year 3–Year 6

Times Table Patterns

Join each number to its multiple and watch the pattern appear.Year 2–Year 6

Counting Stick

Ten sections. Reveal the numbers in the order you choose.Year 1–Year 6

Multiplication Square

Tap a header to light up a times table. Hide the products to practise recall.Year 2–Year 6

Science

Circuits

Drag the parts into the loop and see whether the lamp lights.Year 4–Year 6

Rock Layers and Fossils

Look through the ground at the layers, and find the fossils in them.Year 3–Year 6

Under the Soil

Drag the lens over the lawn and see what lives underneath.Year 1–Year 4

Solar System

The planets going round the Sun, at the real ratio of their years.Year 5–Year 6

Phases of the Moon

Tap the Moon in its orbit, and see the phase from here.Year 5–Year 6

The Water Cycle

Name the stages of the water cycle, and what happens at each one.Year 4–Year 5

Parts of a Plant

Name the parts of a plant, and the parts of a flower.Year 2–Year 3Year 6

Food Chain Builder

Build a food chain, and the board says whether it works.Year 4–Year 6

Why We Have Seasons

Tap a month: see the tilt, the Sun's height and the day length.Year 1Year 5

Seasonal Changes

The same place in spring, summer, autumn and winter.Reception–Year 2

Sort the Seasons

Drag each seasonal change into spring, summer, autumn or winter.Reception–Year 2

Shadow Investigation

A torch, an object and a wall. Move the torch and the shadow changes size.Year 3Year 6

Human Body Diagram

Skeleton, organs, digestive and circulatory. Tap a part to name it.Year 3–Year 6

Solids, Liquids and Gases

Heat it past melting and boiling, and watch the particles change.Year 4–Year 6

English

Rearrange the Sentence

Move the adverb and the adverbial, and find the eight ways to say it.Year 3–Year 6

Word Classes

Tap the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in a sentence.Year 1–Year 6

Homophones

There, their, they're and more, chosen by the sentence they go in.Year 2–Year 6

Prefixes and Suffixes

Add an affix, and see what happens to the spelling.Year 2–Year 5

Synonyms and Antonyms

Drag the words into two boxes: means the same, or means the opposite.Year 2–Year 6

Alphabetical Order

Drag the words onto the shelf in ABC order, with the alphabet to help.Year 1–Year 4

Syllables

Tap the word once for every clap and watch it break into syllables.Reception–Year 4

Handwriting Replay

Write on the lines, then watch it written again, stroke by stroke.Reception–Year 4

Punctuation Practice

Pick a mark, tap the word it goes after, and check the sentence.Year 1–Year 4

Sound Buttons

Type a word and tap the letters to mark the sounds in it.Reception–Year 3

Shape & Space

Nets of a Cube

Build six squares and see whether they fold. Eleven nets to find.Year 5–Year 6

3D Shapes and Nets

Count the faces on a net, then read off the edges and vertices.Year 1–Year 6

Angle Facts

Angles on a line, round a point and in a triangle, and they add up.Year 5–Year 6

Sorting Shapes

Sort ten 2D shapes by two properties at once, on a Venn diagram.Year 2–Year 5

Lines of Symmetry

Shade squares and reflect them, or complete the pattern yourself.Year 2–Year 6

Coordinates Grid

Plot points, read the coordinates, then move the whole shape.Year 4–Year 6

Pattern Blocks

The six wooden blocks. Drag them on and turn them to fit.Reception–Year 5

Geoboard

Stretch bands between pegs. Reads off area and perimeter, or hides them.Year 2–Year 6

History

The Great Fire of London

Build the street in timber or in brick, then set it alight.Year 1–Year 2

Timeline of Key Events

Pick an era, tap a date, and the board says what happened.Year 1–Year 6

Anglo-Saxon Village

Tap round the village: hall, thatch, well, loom, fields, pen.Year 3–Year 6

Viking Longship

Tap the parts to name them: sail, oars, figurehead, steering oar.Year 3–Year 6

Roman People

Five Romans to label: soldier, senator, emperor, farmer, woman.Year 3–Year 6

Kingdoms of Britain

Wessex, Mercia and the Danelaw, all the way to the United Kingdom.Year 3–Year 6

Stone Age to Iron Age

Three scenes in order: Skara Brae, a Bronze Age farm, a hill fort.Year 3–Year 4

Inside a Pyramid

The Great Pyramid cut in half, outside and in.Year 3–Year 6

An Archaeological Dig

Drag a lens down through the ground and go back in time as you go.Year 1–Year 6

Computing

Binary Cards

Turn the cards over to make a number, and read it in 1s and 0s.Year 4–Year 6

Pixel Pictures

Shade the squares, and see the 1s and 0s the picture is stored as.Year 3–Year 6

Program the Robot

Write the programme, press Go, and fix the step that went wrong.Year 1–Year 4

Journey of a Message

Send a message and watch the packets take different routes.Year 3–Year 6

Order the Algorithm

Put the steps in order, press Run, and see what happens.Reception–Year 2

Code Wheel

Turn the wheel, put a word into code, read a code back.Year 3–Year 6

Pattern Machine

Build a unit, repeat it, and find the unit in a pattern.Year 2–Year 5

Parts of a Computer

Name the parts of a computer, then look inside the box.Year 1–Year 4

RE

Rosh Hashanah

Tap the table: shofar, round challah, apples and honey, pomegranate.Year 1–Year 6

Harvest

Tap the display: sheaf, harvest loaf, corn dolly, tinned food.Year 1–Year 6

Languages

Hello Around the World

Say hello in eighteen languages, on a real world map.Year 1–Year 6

Art

Colour Wheel

Tap a colour: primary, secondary or tertiary, and what is opposite it.Year 3–Year 6

Colour Mixing

Mix red, yellow and blue, make tints and shades, and mix to match a colour.Year 1–Year 6

Data & Statistics

Carroll Diagram

Drag the numbers into the grid. Every box has to be filled.Year 1–Year 6

Venn Diagram

Drag the numbers into the loops. The middle is the hard bit.Year 1–Year 6

Tally Chart

Tap a row to add a mark. Five marks make a gate.Year 1–Year 4

Pictogram

Rows of symbols with a key. Change what one symbol is worth.Year 1–Year 4

Bar Chart and Block Diagram

Build a bar chart with the class. The same data as blocks, in one tap.Year 1–Year 5

Fractions

Fraction of an Amount

Three quarters of twenty, in two steps with counters.Year 3–Year 6

Fraction Circles

Shade slices of a circle. Change the parts and the amount stays the same.Year 2–Year 6

Fraction Beats

Fill a bar with fractions and read the sum underneath.Year 2–Year 6

Interactive Fraction Wall

Shade parts to compare fractions and find equivalents.Year 2–Year 6

Measure

Time Intervals

How long from one time to another, one jump at a time.Year 3–Year 6

Reading Scales

A thermometer and a measuring jug. Hide the reading and read the scale.Year 2–Year 6

Interactive Ruler

Measure in cm and mm, and read the same length three ways.Year 1–Year 5

Protractor

Drag an arm and read the angle. Hide the number and estimate first.Year 3–Year 6

UK Coins

1p to £2 at their real relative sizes. Totals in pounds and pence.Year 1–Year 5

The Shop Till

Count the change out of the drawer. Get it right and the drawer shuts.Year 1–Year 5

Teaching Clock

Drag the hands. Reads out in digits and in words, or hide both.Year 1–Year 5

Geography

Climate Zones

Polar, temperate and tropical, and the lines between them.Year 3–Year 6

World Map

Name the seven continents and the five oceans.Year 1–Year 6

UK Map

Name the four countries, their capitals and the seas.Year 1–Year 6

Direction Grid

Move north, east, south and west to reach the flag.Year 1–Year 4

Layers of the Earth

Tap a layer to name it, then look at the crust close up.Year 3–Year 6

Geography Vocabulary

Two landscapes, and the fourteen words for what is in them.Year 1–Year 4

Human and Physical Features

Sort forty features into made by people, or natural.Year 1–Year 4

Volcano

A volcano cut in half, with the seven parts to name.Year 3–Year 6

Earthquakes

Two plates, stuck and then slipping, with the words for what happens.Year 3–Year 6

Mountains

Two ways the ground makes a mountain: squeezed, or broken.Year 3–Year 6

Latitude and Longitude

Move the pin, read the pair, and the board says what is there.Year 4–Year 6

Map Key

Match the symbols to their meanings, then find them on a map.Year 3–Year 6

Lines of the Globe

The equator, the tropics, the poles and the two halves, on a ball.Year 3–Year 6

Time Zones

Move London's clock, tap a city, and count the hours between.Year 5–Year 6

Layers of the Rainforest

Drag a light meter down a rainforest and watch the sunlight run out.Year 3–Year 6

Biomes

Seven biomes, marked where they are, with what grows in each.Year 3–Year 6

Journey of a River

Source to mouth, with the eight features to name.Year 3–Year 6

Classroom

Interactive Dice

Roll up to six dice. Hold the ones you keep and roll the rest.Year 1–Year 6

Interactive Spinner

Two to twelve equal segments. Tap to spin, read where it lands.Year 1–Year 6

Random Number Generator

Any range, with a no repeats option to work through it once.Year 1–Year 6

Classroom Timer

Big digits and a dial that empties. Chimes when the time is up.Reception–Year 6

Stopwatch

Counts up in tenths, with laps and splits.Year 1–Year 6

Random Name Picker

Paste your class list once. Everyone gets a turn before anyone repeats.Reception–Year 6

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