Learning to Count
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Wooden Counting Sticks - 100-Piece Maths Rods Set
£4.99These counting sticks come as a set of 100 slim wooden rods, each 7.5 cm long, for children aged 3 and up. Your child counts them out one by one, bundles them in tens and lines them up in rows, so a number becomes something to touch and see before it is ever written down.
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Compact Wooden Counting Abacus - 100 Beads Red & Blue
£14.99Build confident mental maths with this compact wooden counting abacus. Featuring 100 beads arranged in contrasting red and blue five-and-ten groupings, it makes learning additions, subtractions, and place values clear and intuitive.
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Wooden Arithmetic Box with Counting Sticks & Number Tiles
£14.99This comprehensive wooden arithmetic box brings mathematics to life through tactile play. Featuring colourful counting rods and wooden number tiles in a divided storage case, it provides an intuitive way for children to master counting and elementary calculation.
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Montessori Wooden Maths Calculation Number Rods
£16.99Make abstract arithmetic concrete and intuitive with these 100% FSC® certified wooden calculation rods. Sized proportionally to represent numbers 1 to 10, the 19 rods fit inside a solid wooden tray to teach early addition, comparisons, and number bonds.
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Montessori Memory & Language Matching Cards
£16.99A memory card game for children aged 3 and up, sold by theme: numbers, opposites, telling the time, or a surprise set. Children first find the pairs face up while naming what they see, then turn everything over for a proper match-the-cards memory game.
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Traditional Wooden Abacus - Classic Mental Arithmetic Soroban
£22.99This traditional wooden Chinese abacus is a powerful calculation tool that makes arithmetic visual and tangible. Built from sturdy natural wood with smooth sliding beads, it helps children master addition, subtraction, place value, and rapid mental maths.
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Wooden Horizontal Abacus - Addition & Subtraction
£31.99This horizontal wooden abacus helps children from 4 years old work out their first additions and subtractions with their hands. Beads slide along ten arched wires from one side to the other, so your child can build a sum, take some away and count what is left before writing anything down.
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Large Wooden 100-Bead Abacus Frame - Blue
£29.99Transform abstract numbers into tangible counting units with this large standing wooden abacus. Featuring a solid wood base finished in calm blue and ten metal rods with 100 smooth counting beads, it is a timeless tool for visual mathematics.
Montessori counting toys help children move from reciting numbers to really understanding them. With an abacus, a set of counting sticks or number rods, quantities become visible and easy to compare, so counting, adding and taking away make sense step by step.
- Abacuses: a traditional soroban, a horizontal abacus for addition and subtraction, and 100-bead counting frames in blue or red and blue.
- Counting sticks and rainbow maths rods in sets of 100 for grouping in tens.
- Number rods and large calculation rods that show at a glance that seven is longer than three.
- Counting games: a counting and maths matching game, a counting hands number puzzle and a counting board with spinning gears.
Choose an abacus toy for daily counting practice, then add rods or games as your child grows in confidence.