Series 3 Overview stories and mathematics
More on Numbers to 10
Episode Name Storyline Mathematics
Are you sitting comfortably? Then Once Upon a Time we’ll begin a bedtime story all about • A review of numbers 1 to 5 1 the first five Numberblocks.
Coming now to a screen near you: the • Comparison of numbers 1 to 5 2 Blockzilla monster tale of a colossal creature using the language of ‘greater than’ who really, really likes bigger numbers. and ‘less than’ The All aboard for a riotous railway ride • Composition of 5 3 Numberblocks as the Numberblocks try to stop a • Partitioning and combining 5 in Express runaway train. different ways Welcome to the fabulous fun fruit • Composition of numbers to 5 factory, where Three’s super fruit- • Exploring the part-part-whole Fruit Salad 4 sorting machines aren’t giving her any model to partition and combine fruit. numbers to 5 When there’s nothing there to count • Introducing the concept of zero 5 Zero and none is the amount, nobody does • Zero is one less than 1 and an it better than Zero. absence of something Are you sitting comfortably? Then Now We Are Six to we’ll begin a bedtime story all about • A review of numbers 6 to 10 6 Ten Numberblocks Six to Ten. Sing along to the Numberblobs Numberblobs counting song with the • Counting to 10 7 Numberblocks’ favourite friends.
The Numberblocks rescue a friendly • Building with blocks and exploring Building Blocks alien who helps them build a tower to 8 space and pattern the stars. The number friends take turns hiding • Comparison of numbers to 10 9 behind each other in a song and using the language of ‘bigger than’, Peekaboo! dance all about bigger and smaller. ‘smaller than’ leading to ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ 10 Every time Numberblock Nine hiccups, • Composition of numbers to 10 Hiccups he falls to pieces – until the others find • Partitioning and combining numbers an unexpected cure. in different ways Seven shows the others how to be • Comparison of numbers to 10 What’s the lucky like him: just ask a number • Finding the difference to make 7 11 Difference? friend to jump on your head! But how do you know which friend? Ten riders, ten pedal-powered cars, Numberblock Rally but only one can lift the trophy. • Subtraction 12 Welcome to the Numberblock Rally!
When Five and friends go missing • Numbers 6 to 10 are made from 5 Five and Friends from the five-star ball, Six to Ten and a ‘bit’ 13 discover they are all Five-and-a-friend! The terribly naughty Terrible Twos are Octoblock to the making custard pies and Octoblock • Pairs of numbers that total 8 14 Rescue! is all tied up: can his friends save the day? The number friends all want to do Ten Again different things today, so rocket Ten • Pairs of numbers that total 10 15 finds a clever way to do it all. Squarey, we’re not in Numberland anymore! Four visits Flatland, where Flatland • 2D Shape 16 the flat shapes live, and becomes a real square. One and chums carefully cross the precarious pattern puzzle paths over • Pattern Pattern Palace 17 many magic moats to get to the Pattern Palace. A big hairy monster with a big hairy The Legend of Big tummy who loves puzzles? Find out • Problem solving and finding the 18 Tum who is in Big Tum’s tum! missing number
One makes a wish that the magic • Adding multiples of the same Mirror, Mirror mirror could make lots of friends at number 19 once − and soon it’s pandemonium. It was a grey day in the big city. One The Wrong was wondering where her next case • Problem solving – reasoning about 20 Number would come from, when a square number silhouette appeared at the door.…
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