Reading, writing and representing numbers

This article looks at how models support mathematical thinking about numbers and the number system

While musing about the difficulties children face in comprehending number structure, notation, etc., it occured to the author that there is a vast array of occasions when numbers and signs are used in anomalous ways; often these are at the earliest stages, when they must be enormously confusing. However, they also frequently happen in adult situations.

This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful representation for many number concepts.

Bernard Bagnall recommends some primary school problems which use numbers from the environment around us, from clocks to house numbers.

In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.

This article for the young and old talks about the origins of our number system and the important role zero has to play in it.