Counting Towers: Number Mats to Ten
Build block towers on two counting mats, one for 1–5 and one for 1–10. Supply the blocks separately.

- Year groups
- Reception (Early Years), Year 1 (Key Stage 1)
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Subject
- Numbers, Maths
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Number and place value
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About this resource
This simple hands-on activity helps students practice number recognition, counting and 1:1 correspondence. Students use stacking blocks to build a tower that corresponds with the number, which includes numbers 1-10.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Build a tower containing the stated number of blocks
- Match numerals with counted quantities
Skills covered
- One-to-one correspondence — assign one block to each count when building the numbered tower.
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
- Official curriculum expectation · Number and place value — read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words
Core concepts
- One-to-one counting
- Numeral-quantity matching
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