Ten Town is an award-winning numeracy resource designed by former Reception Class teacher Rebecca Sandy. Then take a tour around Ten Town TV studios to find out about numbers to 20 and see how each episode links to a different maths topic. There were children that we weren’t expecting to achieve the Early Learning Goal for Maths and they did, and that was definitely through Ten Town. I would say they have a much broader understanding of the concept of numerals and what each number represents in terms of quantity and as a tool to group things. It is a great and fun resource to use with the children which helps them recognise numbers to 20 and to form them accurately.

So your child might like to set the table for King One with one knife, one fork and so on, or they could pair up socks, like Tommy Two! When a character’s story is combined with their number rhyme, this can improve number formation and reduce number reversal. When a character’s story is combined with their rhyme, this helps improve number formation and reduces number reversal. Here are just a few examples and if you decide to join our ever-growing community, please get in touch and let us know about how you use Ten Town in your own school or nursery.

Everything about a Ten Town character relates to their number, so Fiona Five, the Paralympic athlete, eats five portions of fruit and eg every day, and Nina Nine, the builder, has nine tools in her tool box. Numbers are really just abstract shapes, and this can often lead to number reversal — writing numbers back to front. Ten Town is a valuable maths resource that can be implemented to suit the requirements of your pupils. The key feature of Ten Town is that it gives children a reason why each number is formed in a particular way.

The characters also develop an understanding of number value as well as offering many cross curricular learning opportunities.There are also a number of options to access the online activities at home, including stories, songs and games.

Ten Town is not a prescriptive scheme that requires practitioners to follow a rigid plan but gives you the resources to opportunity to create memory learning experience for your children. He went from not liking numbers to deciding he wanted to read all the door numbers on our street and getting them all right. Finally, when they have completed all the numbers on the map, their animal avatar is rewarded with a hat of their choice! For example, Thelma Three can be used to explore personal, social and emotional development, Freddie Four can help develop an understanding of the world, while Fiona Five can form part of physical development activities.King One is in charge of Ten Town, and all the other characters have a reason why they face or away from him. This helps children to develop an understanding of the value of each number and can also be applied to everyday activities. These are often only a starting point for practitioners, who adapt the ideas for their own settings or come up with completely new ones. One of the reasons it has really worked in our school is that Ten Town isn’t just about learning number formation and early counting, it has also developed the children’s understanding of number value and how to apply their knowledge in practical situations. From small beginnings, when it consisted of just of a few printed materials, packed on my kitchen table, Ten Town is now a multimedia resources that has been used in over 3000 schools and nurseries in the UK and across the world.