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Agent briefing
A look around the sofa
Squares where?
Know your Numberjacks
Good looking, good listening
Fall sorted
One won
Bad circles
Clock watch
Going wrong, going long
A look at the Counter Machine
Five a day
Buddy Blocks belong
Bun fun
A surprise visitor
Being 3
In and out of the Maybe Pot
The Numbertaker’s First Eleven
Three things good
Tub time
Cubes and spheres
One more time
Know your Meanies: the Puzzler
In, out, shake it all about
Adding to 5’s happiness
The Cuck-cuck-cuck-oo-oo-oo bird
Sheep Sharing
Seven’s shiny shapes
Close encounters
4 he’s a jolly good fellow
The Numberjacks are counting on you
More fun with buns
3 Meanies
Best estimate
Food for thought
ACTION
Children find out what they do as Agents
Agents get to know their way around the sofa
Agents explore squares in 2-d and 3-d objects
Agents get to know the Numberjacks
Agents practise their observation and listening skills
Humpty Dumpty is put back together
The Numbertaker makes it 1 of everything
The Shape Japer is making circles go bad
3 and 5 sort out the Hickory Dickory clock
Things get longer thanks to the Problem Blob
Agents practise using the Counter Machine
Georgie Porgie improves his diet
Agents sort items into groups that belong together
Agents stay cool when buns are hot and cross
An unusual visitor in the nursery
The Numbertaker is taking things that come in threes
The Meanies set puzzles for the Agent to solve
There are far too many Numberjacks on the beach
3 goes out on her own
Rub a dub dub, too many men in the tub
Agents find out about cubes and spheres
4 rides the railway
Agents practise their number skills
Things that should be inside end up outside
5 can’t find her 5 buddy blocks
Agents explore patterns and sequences
Agents help the Numberjacks share things fairly
Agents help Numberjack 7 collect 7 different shapes
Agents help sort out the black sheep and others
The Numbertaker is taking all the fours he can find
Help the Numberjacks to find pictures they will like
Help out when the buns go wrong in the baker’s shop
Solve problems set by three different Meanies
Help people make quick estimates of numbers
Agents help to run a restaurant
FOCUS
How the program works
Number: counting objects
Shape: squares
Number: numeral recognition
Observation, listening
Number: some, many too many
Number: one more, one less
Shape: circles
Number: counting
Measurement: length
Number: making groups of objects
Data: same, different
Data: sorting
Calculation: adding
Position: opposite, next to
Number: 3
Problem Solving
Number: counting
Shape: triangles
Calculation: subtracting
Shape: cubes, spheres
Calculation: one more/less
Number: solving problems
Position: in/out
Calculation: addition
Patterns
Calculation: sharing
Shape: recognising & naming shapes
Position: near and far
Number: 4
Number: matching groups
Data: selecting to match descriptions
Number, size and sorting
Number: estimation
Calculation: sharing and allocating
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