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Equipment Animations

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Counting

Fingers: Shows how fingers can be used to solve simple addition sums.
Number Strip:  Shows how the Number Strip can be used to model subtraction.
Bead Strings:  Shows how Bead Strings can be used to develop skip counting and counting on.
Number Fans:  Shows how Number Fans can be used to develop number identification.
Arrow Cards:  Shows how Arrow cards can be linked to place value equipment.
Flip Strip:  Shows how the flip strip can be used to help learn 'numbers after'.
Number Strip 2:  Shows how the Number Strip can be used to demonstrate counting on to solve multiplication problems.
Beans:  Shows how materials such as beans or counters can be used to model two-digit numbers.
Place Value Houses:  Shows how Place Value Houses can be used to help students read multi-digit numbers.
Counters in Containers:  Shows how containers and counters can be used to develop counting on.
Numeral Cards:  Shows how numeral cards can be used to practise ordering numbers.
Calculators:  Shows how calculators can be used to develop skip counting.
Counters for Addition:  Shows how Counters can be used to illustrate solving addition problems.
Number Strip 3:  Shows how a number strip and transparent counters can be used to illustrate counting-on to solve addition problems.
Number Strip 4:  Shows how a number strip and transparent counters can be used to illustrate counting-back to solve subtraction problems.
Beans and Regions:  Shows how beans and regions can be used to demonstrate the equal sharing strategy for fractions of a set.

Additive

Tens Frames:  Shows how Tens Frames can be used to aid students in 'bridging to ten'.
Bead Frame 2:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to help illustrate decade splits in 100.
Bead Frame 3:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to help illustrate splits in 100.
Animal Strips:  Shows how Animal Strips can be used to develop part-whole strategies for adding over the tens.
Open Number Lines:  Shows how Open Number Lines can be used to illustrate single digit addition using decades.
Open Number Lines 2:  Shows how Open Number Lines can be used to illustrate subtraction with compensation.
Pop Sticks:  Shows how pop sticks can be used to develop the 'make a ten' strategy in two-digit addition.
Calculators 2:  Shows how calculators can be used to support estimating when adding.
Animal Strips 3:  Shows how Animal Strips can be used to introduce addition facts to ten.
Animal Strips 4:  Shows how Animal Strips can be used to support learning doubles to 20.
Bead Frame Tens:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to help recognise the number of 10s in hundreds numbers.
Beans and Icecream Containers:  Shows how beans and icecream containers can be used to demonstrate subtraction with compensation.
Double Sided Counters:  Shows how Double Sided Counters can be used to support learning groupings to five.
Number Lines 2:  Shows how number lines can be used to round whole numbers.
Tens Frames:  Shows how tens frames can be used to help students learn the facts to 10.

Multiplicative

Bead Frame:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to derive unknown multiplication facts from known facts.
Pipe Decimals:  Shows how Pipe Decimals can be used to develop understanding of decimal place value.
Ice Cream Numbers:  Shows how Ice Cream containers and place value material can be used to encourage students to use friendly numbers to solve multiplication problems.
Happy Hundred:  Shows how the happy hundred can be used to derive single digit multiplication facts.
Multilink 1:  Shows how multilink cubes can be used to aid derivation of multiplication facts.
Cuisenaire Rods:  Shows how cuisenaire rods can be used to illustrate fractions greater than 1.
Multilink 2:  Shows how multilink cubes can be used to illustrate fraction concepts.
Multilink 3:  Shows how multilink cubes can be used to teach decimals.
Mystery Stars:  Shows how Mystery Stars can be used to relate fractions of a set to the whole.
Beans 2:  Shows how Beans can be used to explore equivalent fractions.
Number Lines:  Shows how numberlines can be used to illustrate rounding of decimals.
Animal Strips 2:  Shows how Animal Strips can be used to solve multiplication problems.
Folding Fractions:  Shows how paper folding can be used to develop student understanding of equivalent fractions.
Multiplication Arrays:  Shows how arrays can be used to develop partitioning strategies for double-digit multiplication.
Multiplication Arrays 2:  Shows how arrays can be used to develop students' understanding of the standard algorithm for multiplication.
Open Double Number Lines:  Shows how unlabelled double number lines can be used to explore ordering of fractions.
Calculators 3:  Shows how calculators can be used to support estimating when multiplying.
Fraction Circles:  Shows how fraction circles can be used to help students rename fractions.
Beans and Containers:  Shows how beans and containers can be used to develop place value partitioning for multiplication.
Arrow Cards 2:  Shows how arrow cards can be used to help students order decimal numbers.
Fraction Wall:  Shows how a fraction wall can be used to help develop students' understanding of equivalent fractions.
Decimats 1:  Shows how Decimats can be used to develop an understanding of the relationship between tenths and hundredths.
Decimats 2:  Shows how Decimats can be used to help students understand recording of decimal numbers.
Decimats 3:  Shows how Decimats can be used to develop an understanding of the addition and subtraction of decimals.
Fraction Wall 2:  Shows how a fraction wall can be used to compare and order fractions.
Bead Frame Tenths: Shows how the Beadframe can be used to help recognise the number of tenths in ones numbers.
Hills and Dales Addition with Integers:  Uses Hills and Dales to illustrate integer addition.
Hills and Dales Subtraction with Integers 1:  Shows one way to model subtraction of integers.
Hills and Dales Subtraction with Integers 2:  Shows a second way to model subtraction of integers.
Multilink Cubes:  Shows how the multilink cubes can be used to represent square and cube numbers.
Animal Strips 5: Shows how animal strips can be used to model division problems.
Bead Frame 5:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to show multiplication with 10s 100s and 1000s.
Bead Frame 6:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to show multiples of 100 that add to 1000.
Fraction Wall 3:  Shows how a fraction wall can be used to show addition of fractions.

Proportional

Bead Frame 4:  Shows how the Bead Frame can be used to help illustrate the relationship between fractions and percentages.
Flow Diagrams:  Shows how flow diagrams can be used to help understand discounts and mark-ups.
Double Number Lines:  Shows how double number lines can be used to solve ratio problems.
Circle Fractions: Shows how circle fractions can be used to rename improper fractions as mixed numerals.
Fraction Tiles: Shows how fraction tiles can be used to explore division involving fractions.
Beans 3: Shows how Beans can be used to find proportions in a given set.
Percentage Strips:  Shows how Percentage Strips can be used to help students understand percentage problems.
Multilink Cubes 4:  Shows how multilink cubes can be used to simplify ratios.
Percentage Strips 2:  Shows how Percentage Strips can be used to help students understand that percentages are like a fraction out of 100.
Double Number Lines 2:  Shows how double number lines can be used to solve problems which involve finding a fraction of a number.
Double Number Lines 3:  Shows how double number lines can be used to solve problems which involve finding a percentage of a number.
Decimats 4:  Shows how Decimats can be used to develop an understanding of the multiplication of decimals.
Decimats 5:  Shows how Decimats can be used to develop an understanding of the division of decimals.
Rotating Region:  Shows how the Rotating Region can be used to develop an understanding of fraction/percentage equivalents.
Beans and Counters: Shows how beans and counters can be used to help understand the difference between part to part ratios and part to whole ratios.  
Strips of Paper: Shows how strips of paper can be used to compare ratios.
Counters for Ratios:  Shows how counters can be used to show addition of ratios.

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