Series 2 Overview stories and mathematics

Numbers to 10

Episode* Name Storyline Mathematics The Numberblocks make a new friend • Meet Six who likes to roll the dice, and with Six • Counting (1 to 6) Six 1 in the mix, everything's a game. • Subitising (dice patterns)

It's a rainy day for a picnic, but • Meet Seven when lucky number Seven appears, • 7 is one more than 6 Seven 2 everything comes up rainbows. • Counting (1 to 7)

Numberland is rocked by the • Meet Eight arrival of superblock Eight, known to • Counting (1 to 8) 3 Eight his friends and fans as Octoblock. • 8 is one more than 7 • Subitising (8)

Numberblock Nine arrives in Num- • Meet Nine berland, finds a friend in Four, sings a • Counting (1 to 9) 4 Nine song about squares… and sneezes! • The structure of square numbers (4 and 9) • Partitioning and combining 9 Ten comes to town and tells the team • Meet Ten 5 Ten what it’s like to be a perfect ten-block, • Counting (1 to 10) singing I’m Ten Ones and I’m One Ten. • 10 ones are equivalent to one 10. One’s idea of fun is singing, dancing • Adding 1 Just Add One and making friends by adding one! 6 • Counting (1 to 10)

One of the bottles in Ten’s collection • Subtracting 1 7 Ten Green Bottles accidentally falls off the wall and • Counting (1 to 10) sparks a very numbery hullabaloo. • Counting down 10 to 1 • Exploring equivalent ways to Six tries to get the cheeky sheep to represent 6 Counting Sheep sleep and discovers that two (or three) 8 • Partitioning 6 into equal groups heads are better than one. • Factors of 6 Double Trouble One explores the Double Dungeon of • Doubling (1, 2, 4, 8) and halving 9 Doom in search of the golden apples • Partitioning 8 into equal groups and doubles all the way up to Octoblock. The Three Threes When Nine needs a helping hand, he • Partitioning 9 into 3 equal groups 10 turns into a talented trio of bouncing • Partitioning is the inverse of blocks, the three Threes. combining The Numberblocks play an exciting • Odd and even numbers Odds and Evens game of bounceball − it’s the Even 11 • Equal groups Tops versus the Odd Blocks. One finds a friendly furball, two of • Counting (1 to 8) Fluffies them tickle Two and soon 12 • Number bonds within 7 Numberland is full of fun and fluffies! Ten promises to take the others on a • Count back from 10 to 1 13 Blast Off! trip to the moon but blasts off on her • Number bonds that total 10 own. How will they get there? The Numberblocks find a magic two- • Subtracting 2 from numbers up to 14 The Two Tree tree and play an action-packed game 10 of throwing Twos. • Counting in 2s One, Two, Three and Four have a Numberblock Cas- castle-exploring adventure, with a • Adding more than 1 to make 5 to 15 tle little help from the friends they make 10 along the way.

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