National Numeracy Day 2024 Early Years & Primary
Welcome to the toolkit for Early Years & Primary
Thank you for signing up to take part in National Numeracy Day on Wednesday 22 May!
With your support, we can help more children than ever build their skills and confidence with numbers.
This page contains all the information you need to plan a fantastic National Numeracy Day for your setting or community.
To help your planning:
Posters
Use these posters around your nursery, school or youth group to get everyone talking about National Numeracy Day and the Number Heroes Competition.
Bunting
Download and print this bunting to decorate your school spaces or community areas, and get in the National Numeracy Day spirit.
Smartboard displays
Use these smartboard displays around your nursery, school or youth group to get everyone talking about National Numeracy Day and the Number Heroes Competition.
National Numeracy Day Live
WHAT? Join our celebrity ambassadors for 30 minutes of non-stop number fun in celebration of National Numeracy Day!
WHEN? Wednesday 22 May at 9.30am or watch online anytime after the event.
HOW? Download our activity sheet and join the livestream on our YouTube channel – details TBC.
Number Heroes Competition
Create a picture of you doing your dream job or hobby and tell us how it uses numbers. Let your imagination run wild and win a fantastic prize for yourself and a prize bundle for your nursery, school or youth group.
The 2024 competition is now LIVE! Download your entry sheet now and get started.
Celebrity ambassador activities
We're currently working on our activities for National Numeracy Day 2024, but in the meantime you can check out last year's activities on our resource bank for children.
NumBots Bot Bingo!
Bot Bingo is a fun, interactive, downloadable game from Maths Circle that can be played in the classroom.
Who will be the first to call "BOT BINGO!"?
Bot Bingo is a fun and engaging way for students to build core maths skills starting from the basics with subitising. Subitising is the ability to recognise small quantities of objects without counting. With Bot Bingo, as well as subitising, numbers are shown in familiar pictorial representations, including bar models and cherries. Students need to recognise the number and find it on their Bot Bingo card. Suitable from age 5 to 95!
Activities from the Numberblocks!
This year we've teamed up with Numberblocks to bring you a host of amazing activities for under 5s.
Let's dance with the Numberblocks!
Strictly Come Dancing champion Katya Jones teaming up with the Numberblocks to get you building your number confidence through movement and rhythm.
Download all the activities below...
Fifteen's minute of fame
Who is hiding with Ten in each Numberblock?
Fifty is a rock and roll superstar
Count up the 5s as you colour them in.
Sky high fives
Can you find the fives hiding in these times tables?
Five and friends are on stage
Which number is missing?
Five and friends
All these numbers are made up of 'five and a bit'. Show how they're made by colouring them in.
For adults:
Promoting the National Numeracy Challenge
The National Numeracy Challenge is an online tool that builds numeracy skills and confidence, with 300+ everyday maths questions and tutorials, multimedia resources, technology that adapts to individual learning levels and signposting to further support.
The Challenge is the perfect way to boost the number confidence of anyone over the age of 13, all year round, and is a great next step after you have had a Big Number Natter.
Your Big Number Natter resources
Everything you need to plan your Big Number Natter:
Plan your session
Get started planning your Big Number Natter sessions with these notes for organisers. Then get stuck in to all the other resources.
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Your Number Natter Slides
Hold a 15-30 minute session using these slides, provided with presenter notes.
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Quick Number Natter talking points
Use these ideas to spark a less formal conversation about numbers.
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Ideas for Number Nattering on social media
Use these ideas to encourage everyone to follow up on your session with some social media ideas for individual Number Natters.
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Find out how to talk about numbers
Get some expert help from our Training Officer Ishraq Li-Rahman.
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Be sure to tag us in any social media activity and use #NationalNumeracyDay and #BigNumberNatter so we can see and share what you're up to! You can find us on:
- X: @Nat_Numeracy
- Facebook: @nationalnumeracy
- Instagram: @national_numeracy
- LinkedIn: National Numeracy
- TikTok: @nationalnumeracy
