• Number: Counting, Place Value
Building Understanding and Fluency in Addition and Subtraction with basic facts and beyond
Bond Blocks are a new, innovative manipulative developed by Narelle Rice and supported by Dr Paul Swan. There are a few key features of Bond Blocks:
- The blocks are not scored, reducing the tendency to simply count.
- The natural wood colour of the sustainably-sourced New Zealand Pine reduces distraction of colourful plastic and focuses children on the numbers.
- Ten is represented with two different blocks: the Linear Ten and an Empty Ten Frame, similar to a ten strip and ten frame.
- They are a ratio of one unit : 2 cm making them easy to manipulate.
- They are self-checking, encouraging number sense and estimation.
There’s a lot you can do with just the Blocks themselves, but the Bond Blocks are also part of a larger Bond Blocks system comprised of Games, Assessment Materials and Teacher Notes. Lessons on the Bond Blocks system are publically accessible at www.bondblocks.com
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Bond Blocks Videos
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Using Bond Blocks
Bond Blocks include two of each linear block 1 to 9, four linear 10 blocks, two blank five blocks and a marked and blank empty ten frame block.
The earliest stages of counting with Bond Blocks include counting forwards, building a set of steps from 1 to 10 where students touch the block, physically moving down the steps. Eventually the student begins to count along covered numbers and starts at points other than one.
Typical Classroom Requirements
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A class set:
One set of Bond Blocks between 2 or 4 students.
A class of 32 will need 8 or 16 sets of Bond Blocks
Support and Complementary Materials
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Bond Blocks has a complementary series of materials including 106 board games and assessment materials.
The Bond Block System targets:
- Fluency with number bonds, leading to recall, to add and subtract to 20.
- Robust understanding of addition and subtraction concepts, and relationships between them.
- Flexible, efficient calculating strategies.
- Number concepts including place value.
- Mathematical reasoning and problem solving.
More information
See the official Bond Blocks Website www.bondblocks.com