Have you discovered rekenreks for your early mathematicians? If you haven't, they are well worth looking into. A rekenrek is a beautifully simple counting frame that helps children build their number sense, visualise the relationship between numbers and develop strategies for addition and subtraction. It contains 2 parallel bars or strings with 10 beads strung …

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