Teachables Teddy Bear Counters - Set of 96 Pieces

This engaging set of 96 colourful plastic teddy bear counters is ideal for exploring early mathematical concepts through hands-on play. The bears come in four vibrant colours-red, yellow, blue, and green-and are designed in four different sizes and corresponding weights: 12g, 9g, 6g, and 3g. Each bear features its mass clearly displayed on its belly, supporting activities related to sorting, ordering, and weight comparison. The set comes in a sturdy storage container, making classroom organisation easy. These counters are a versatile tool for developing foundational numeracy skills such as counting, classifying, sequencing, and comparing. When used alongside scales or balances, they provide concrete experiences for exploring mass and equivalency-such as discovering that two 3g bears weigh the same as one 6g bear. By encouraging learners to sort by attributes like colour, size, and weight, students build critical early mathematical thinking and vocabulary. These counters also support cognitive skills such as conservation, seriation, and pattern recognition, making them an essential manipulative for early years mathematics programs.

Educational Benefits:

• Promotes understanding of weight, size, and number through tactile exploration.
• Develops classification, patterning, and ordering skills essential to early maths learning.
• Encourages comparison and reasoning using concrete representations of mass.
• Supports early counting strategies, including one-to-one correspondence and number conservation.

Classroom Ideas:

• Use with a balance scale to explore concepts of heavier, lighter, and equal mass.
• Create pattern sequences based on colour, size, or weight for students to replicate and extend.
• Incorporate into counting and sorting stations to reinforce number recognition and matching skills.
• Set challenges where students group bears to match a specific total weight using reasoning and logic.

Information:

• Ages: Suitable for ages 3 years and up
• Measurements: Weights of bears - 12g, 9g, 6g, and 3g; Set includes 96 pieces in a storage container