Some materials can be made, whilst others have to be bought. Unless a supplier is specified, the material is available from educational suppliers such as those listed under ‘Suppliers’.

Walton, M. (1994) Maths Words. From SEN Marketing (see Suppliers)

• 0–5 six‐sided dice
• 1p to 50p six‐sided dice
• Blank playing cards
• Money (plastic or real)
• Base ten (Dienes) blocks
• Poker chips (buy ‘real’ ones, or buy ‘stackers’ from www.crossboweducation.com)
• Large (2 cm+) counters
• Cocktail sticks (in boxes of 100, bundles of 10 and singly)
• Squared paper
• Place value cards (make your own)
• Vocabulary and symbol cards (make your own)
• Abacus
• Geo boards
• Dice (various shapes and values; blank six‐sided dice are obtainable)
• Cuisenaire rods
• Numicon
• Flexitable (www.flexitable.co.uk)
• Multi‐link cubes
• Uni‐fix cubes
• Square counters (from www.crossboweducation.com)
• Beadstrings
• Metre rules: mm divisions, cm divisions and dm divisions
• Number square, 1–100, with counters
• Clock faces (with synchronised hands), for example the Helen Arkell Teaching Clock (www.arkellcentre.org.uk)
• Talking calculators
• Pie chart scales
• 10 dm cube (to hold one litre of liquid)
• Stern pattern boards
• Tape measure
• Trundle wheel
• Kitchen scales

The Dyscalculia/Maths Intervention Kit contains a wide range of materials and is available from Crossbow Education

Suppliers

Crossbow Education. 41 Sawpit Lane, Brocton, Staffordshire ST17 0TE
www.crossboweducation.com

Cuisenaire Company. www.cuisenaire.co.uk

Hope Education.
www.hope‐education.co.uk
enquiries@hope‐education.co.uk

Learning Resources, 5 Merchants Close, Oldmeadow Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 4JX.
www.learningresources.co.uk

Learning Development Aids. www.ldalearning.com

www.learningmaterials.co.uk for ‘Living Maths’ books

Magic Whiteboard, 95C Blackpole West Trading Estate, Worcester WR3 8TJ. www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk

Partners in Education UK Ltd.
www.partnersineducation.co.uk

SEN Marketing (for a large range of special need books)
www.senbooks.co.uk

Special Direct @ TTS Group Ltd, Park Lane Business Park, Kirkby‐in‐Ashfield, Nottinghamshire NG17 9GU.
www.specialdirect.com

Stern Maths
www.store.sternmath.com/early‐number‐sense/1‐manipulative

Taskmaster Ltd.
www.taskmasteronline.co.uk

Coloured overlays

Crossbow Education
www.crossboweducation.com

Institute of Optometry Sales Ltd (iOO Sales Ltd)
www.ioosales.co.uk