Abacus Evolve Framework Edition
Year 2
Resources needed for Abacus Evolve Framework Edition Year 2
Number cards
- number cards 0–100
- number cards 0–10, each with it’s ‘partner’ to 10 on the back
- Doubles cards 5, 10, 15, 20, …, 50 (each number has its double in a different colour on the
back)
- number cards 1–10, each with their multiple of 5 in a different colour on the back
- number cards 1–10, each with their multiple of 2 in a different colour on the back
Other cards
- large place-value cards (tens and units)
- cards showing clock faces: two each of 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, … 12 o’clock
- 14 day cards: two each of Monday, Tuesday, …Sunday
- 12 month cards: January, February, …December
- Labels: ‘cube’, ‘cuboid’, ‘pyramid’, ‘cone’, ‘cylinder’, ‘square’, ‘rectangle’, ‘triangle’,
‘pentagon’, ‘hexagon’
Other paper resources
- large 100-square
- Small 100-squares
- Large 101–200 number grid
- 100-square with extra column on the left-hand side with multiples of ten
- Large 100-square with multiples of 10 marked in blue
- 0–100 number line
- Large cardboard coins (2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2)
- Two intersecting circles (or paper plates) of equal size: make a straight cut to the centre of
each circle and slide them together
- 20–40 number line
- 30–50 number line
- Paper circles of the same size
Pictures of characters
- Pobble
- Bisky Bat
- Blue Baboon
- Attery Squash
- Midgard the wooden/cardboard dragon
- Mr Bear
- Turkey from The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
- A picture of the London Marathon
- Pictures of Egyptian pyramids
- A picture of a crowd (between 100 and 500 people)
Stationery
- Sticky notes
- Scissors
- Three 30 cm rulers marked in centimetres
- Transparent ruler
- Large sheets of paper
- Rectangular and square sheets of paper
- Blu-Tack
- Poster paint
- Stickers
- Felt-tipped pens
Physical resources
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
- Teddy bear
- Puppet
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Abacus Evolve Framework Edition
Year 2
- Wooden or cardboard dragon
- Pictures or puppets of characters from The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (optional)
- About 45 pebbles
- About 60 marbles
- About 38 linking cubes in various colours, including blue and yellow
- 10 cm rods e.g. base-10 rods
- Counters
- Transparent counters
- Jar
- A pot
- Box or cloth bag
- Mug
- Plate
- Jug
- Cup
- Beaker
- Several transparent containers of differing capacities, including cylindrical containers (to
include some with capacities less than a litre)
- Litre measure, calibrated in 100 ml
- Half-litre measure
- Egg-cup
- Objects to weigh (some more and some less than 1kg)
- Bucket/pan balance
- Set of uniform bricks
- 1 kg weights
- Ten 100g weights
- Weighing scales, calibrated in kilograms and 100 grams
- Height-measurer e.g. a tape measure attached to the wall
- A plastic or card model of a shark
- A right-angle tester, for example a corner of a card
- a paintbrush less than 30 cm long
- a metre stick marked in centimetres
- a 5m tape measure
- Roughly 8 m of string/rope
- Coins: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2
- Notes: £5, £10
- Opaque purse
- Three transparent purses or money bags
- Three items with price labels e.g. a pencil case (25p), a pencil (4p) and a pencil sharpener
(2p)
- Old and battered teddy with a price label of 84p
- Packet of cheese or savoury biscuits
- Pieces of fruit e.g. an orange, a grapefruit, a banana and grapes
- 1–6 dice
- Three large dice
- Dice numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Large dice with 6 and 1 replaced by 10
- 3D shapes: three different versions each of cubes, cuboids, pyramids, prisms, spheres,
cylinders, cones, a hemisphere
- 2D shapes: squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons
(including irregular polygons)
- 0–9 number fans
- Drinking straws
- large analogue clock face with moveable hands
- Digital clock
- 1-minute sand timer
- Stop-clock with a second hand
- hat
- Washing line
- 40 pegs
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Year 2
- Coat hanger
- Individual whiteboards
- Large mirror
- Two or more sets of dominoes
- Set of large dominoes
- Beanbag
- A pack of playing cards
- 10-point counting stick with mid-point clearly marked
- Two counting-sticks, one divided into halves and one divided into quarters, e.g. with
insulating tape
- Three hats or badges, labelled ‘hundreds’, ‘tens’ and ‘units’
- Pin-board
- Rubber bands
- Polydron cone made from a semi-circle and a circle
- Large coat hanger with 10 hanging stars to slide along it
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