Learning Resources Bear Counters Set, Counting, Color & Sorting Toy, Set of 80, Ages 3+

Nice colours and different sizes

Very good product. Saw it in a Montessori nursery where my daughter goes. You can use bears to learn counting and do maths subtractions and additions. Also if you use them with the cards, good for pattern learning.

My daughter who is in Year One is way ahead of her peers with reading but really struggling with her numeracy and so I decided to buy a set of these compare bears after seeing some in her classroom and hearing her mention them. I wanted something at home that was also used in the classroom to reinforce the learning in each environment.She was very pleased to have her own set and we have used them many times in simple addition sums as well as to show halving and doubling. You can also put them in size order (they come in three sizes) and colour so there is a little more to them than just counting.My Reception age daughter was also very taken with them as she enjoys lining sorting (she has some ASD traits) and these enable her to group and sort and line up in a variety of ways. She has also used them to answer simple maths questions too.I would recommend these to anyone who wants something to help with maths at home.

Unfortunately these scales will be returned as not suitable. You would expect to put 2 bears of the same size at each end and for the scales to balance - but they dont - so this means that discussing heavier/lighter concepts at nursery is very difficult. The area for putting the bears on is also very small and slippy so putting a bear on has to be done carefully to stop it falling off - and children dont tend to put things down carefully!

I purched this and the set of weighing bears for my 2 year old who loves using my scales. He loves it! He weighs the bears and trys to get the scales to balance, lines up the bears, sorts them into colours and puts them into families. So many ways to play! He can now count to 20 perfectly after playing with these.

These are so good for assessing non-verbal skills and working on simple sequencing and teaching the idea of 'rules'. Good for using to see if a child is ready or not for more complex sequencing, such as basic sequencing of familiar routines and stories, in picture form.