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Mathematics with Building Bricks

Workshops and activities for primary school

Valeria Razzini

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 144

ISBN: 9788859047100

Publication date: 01/09/2026

Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)


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Classic interlocking building bricks become effective teaching tools: children can build, manipulate, compare and represent concepts that may seem abstract on paper, taking an active role in their own learning.

Designed for all years of primary school, the book brings together exercises, workshops and worksheets organised by year group and covering the main areas of mathematics: numbers and place value, operations, times tables, fractions and decimals, geometry, quantities and measurement, statistics and problem solving. The learning journey is made even more engaging by mathematical stories, which introduce the different teaching units and provide a narrative context for the activities.


Introduction
Bibliography

Chapter 1 – Ideas for Year 1
• Number bonds and fact families
• Greater than, less than, equal to
• Odd and even numbers
• Tens and units
• Number lines
• Column addition and subtraction
• Symmetry
• Measuring length
• Worksheets for Year 1

Chapter 2 – Ideas for Year 2
• Numbers up to 100 (and the concept of one hundred)
• Multiplication
• Times tables
• Division: sharing vs grouping
• Collecting data and bar charts (histograms)
• Worksheets for Year 2

Chapter 3 – Ideas for Year 3
• Fractions – Part and whole
• Fractional units – The unit fraction
• The invariant property of subtraction
• The invariant property of division
• The distributive property of multiplication
• Lines, rays and line segments
• Problem-solving module using the Singapore Method
• Worksheets for Year 3

Chapter 4 – Ideas for Year 4
• Angles
• Quadrilaterals
• Triangles
• Standard units of measurement and the metric system
• Converting units of measurement
• Worksheets for Year 4

Chapter 5 – Ideas for Year 5
• Positive and negative numbers: from spatial direction to real-life contexts
• Large numbers
• Multiples, factors and lowest common multiple
• Prime and composite numbers
• Powers
• Worksheets for Year 5