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Year 1 · Units 1 and 2

See, count and compare.
Then take numbers apart.

Ten free lessons to run with your child. Open one, gather a few simple objects, and work through it together.

Open the units

Each lesson begins
with something to notice.

Unit 1 · Numbers to ten

  1. LESSON 1

    Seeing small groups

    Recognise three or four at a glance, then check by counting.

  2. LESSON 2

    Counting a set, and counting nothing

    Count one object at a time, and the last word is how many. Zero gets a name too.

  3. LESSON 3

    One number, three faces

    The counters, the written 4 and the spoken “four” are all the same number.

  4. LESSON 4

    More, fewer or the same

    Pair the objects up. Whatever is left over tells you which group has more.

  5. LESSON 5

    Every number has a place

    Put numbers in order, spot the missing one, and slot a number between its neighbours.

Unit 2 · Wholes and parts

  1. LESSON 6

    A whole, and its parts

    All of them together is the whole. One group inside it is a part.

  2. LESSON 7

    Different ways to split

    Split a group one way, then another. The total never changes.

  3. LESSON 8

    One whole, different parts

    Put numbers on the splits your child made, and a number bond appears.

  4. LESSON 9

    A part with nothing in it

    Move them all to one side. The empty side is still a part: it is holding zero.

  5. LESSON 10

    Every way to make a number

    Move one across at a time and a ladder appears, showing every way.

For the grown-up: you run these lessons with your child. The table work is the longest part, and the screen never replaces it. Nothing is scored, stored or uploaded.

After Lesson 5: R01 is a short paper review across Lessons 2 to 5. Instructions are in Lesson 5's resources; you run it yourself with real objects.