Numberblocks at home

Resources to accompany the CBeebies Numberblocks series, designed for parents to use at home with children

Early Years
Early Years Materials
Numberblocks at home

Numberblocks PowerPoints designed for Early Years practitioners have been adapted into a parent-friendly format. Teachers and practitioners can send them directly to parents to provide opportunities to explore early mathematical understanding at home, in conjunction with the Numberblocks episodes currently available on the BBC iPlayer. The slides can also be customised, making the content bespoke for families and pupils.

This short video, featuring Debbie Morgan (NCETM Director for Primary, and Numberblocks consultant) explains to teachers and Early Years practitioners how to use the resources.

The PowerPoints cover Series 1 and 2, and begin at Series 1 Episode 7 ('Five'). This marks approximately where children in Reception would have got to when in school prior to the third lockdown. Now children have returned to school, the resources can continue to be used to support with early maths at home.

Series 1, Episode 7: “Five”

Five arrives to get the band together − and gets the party started − with a big high five!

Series 1, Episode 8: “Three Little Pigs”

The Numberblocks present their very own, very numbery version of the classic tale: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Square.

Series 1, Episode 9: “Off We Go!”

Five and friends set off on a rhyming romp through field and forest but they keep getting mixed up!

Series 1, Episode 10: “How to Count”

It’s a lovely day for a picnic but one of the flapjacks is missing! Is there a flapjack-snaffler on the loose, or has Three forgotten what Numberblocks do best?

Series 1, Episode 11: “Stampolines”

Three opens a stampoline park, where her friends have splatty fun making inky prints of all the shapes they can make.

Series 1, Episode 12: “The Whole of Me”

The Numberblocks show us what they are made of in a song and dance all about the parts that make a whole.

Series 1, Episode 13: “The Terrible Twos”

Double trouble as Four splits and a pair of tricky twins turn up: The Terrible Twos, who decide it’s time to tickle their friends to pieces.

Series 1, Episode 14 “Holes”

Five and friends discover a hole that makes their heads fall off!

Series 1, Episode 15: “Hide and Seek”

Five is so good at hide and seek, she can find the others without looking up from her book − but how?

Series 2, Episode 1: “Six”

The Numberblocks make a new friend who likes to roll the dice, and with Six in the mix, everything's a game.

Series 2, Episode 2: “Seven”

It's a rainy day for a picnic, but when lucky number Seven appears, everything comes up rainbows.

Series 2, Episode 3: “Eight”

Numberland is rocked by the arrival of superblock Eight, known to his friends and fans as Octoblock.

Series 2, Episode 4: “Nine”

Numberblock Nine arrives in Numberland, finds a friend in Four, sings a song about squares… and sneezes!

Series 2, Episode 5: “Ten”

Ten comes to town and tells the team what it’s like to be a perfect ten-block, singing I’m Ten Ones and I’m One Ten.

Related Pages

Early Years Numberblocks support materials