Teacher-Led Presentations for Numbers 1 to 10

Our new teacher-led presentations help children develop secure number recognition and a growing understanding of quantity through the Ten Town characters they already know and love.

Available via the School Dashboard, the series covers numbers 1 to 10 and combines number formation, varied visual representations and engaging whole-class challenges.

Freddie Four's number formation rhyme
Children find hands showing four fingers
Freddie Four's adventure counting challenge


Developed in partnership with early years teachers

These presentations were created in collaboration with the early years teams across the Lighthouse Multi Academy Trust.

They have been developed and trialled in early years classrooms, with feedback from practitioners helping to shape and refine the finished resources.

“It has been a pleasure working in partnership with Ten Town to develop presentations for numbers 1–10. The children absolutely love the Ten Town characters, and the PPTs have become a fantastic addition to our maths curriculum at Beacon Academy and academies within the Lighthouse Multi Academy Trust.

“The presentations support children in developing secure number recognition and an understanding of quantity in a visual, engaging and enjoyable way, helping to build strong foundations for early mathematical learning.”

Emma Wanglin
Director of Early Years and Curriculum Development

What will children explore?

Each presentation focuses on a different number while following a familiar and consistent structure.

Children are encouraged to:

  • recognise and practise forming the number using each character’s rhyme
  • connect the number with its corresponding quantity
  • explore the number through fingers, dice, number shapes, number frames, a number line, coins and tally marks
  • find, count and match through engaging challenges
  • apply their understanding in familiar and meaningful contexts

The repeated structure helps children know what to expect, while the different characters, objects and challenges maintain interest and provide new opportunities to explore each number.

Number recognition and formation

Children identify the target number among others and practise forming it using the character’s rhyme.

Exploring different representations

Throughout the presentations, the same number may be represented as a numeral, a group of objects, fingers, dice, number shapes, number frames, a position on a number line, tally marks or coins.

This helps children connect the written number with the quantity it represents and develop a richer understanding of number.

Engaging mathematical challenges

Children find, count, choose, sort and match while helping the Ten Town characters with challenges based around food, sport, tools, recycling, shopping and the natural world.

Easy to access and use

The presentations are ready to open directly from the left-hand menu of the Ten Town School Dashboard, without needing to download or open a separate PowerPoint file. The presentations can also be expanded to full screen.

Teachers control the pace of each presentation, allowing time for children to count, discuss, make predictions and explain what they notice.

They can be used for:
• whole-class teaching
• guided work with smaller groups
• introducing a new number
• revisiting and consolidating previous learning

Supporting early years maths

The presentations support important areas of early years maths identified within Development Matters, including:
• counting objects • linking a number symbol, or numeral, with its cardinal number value • subitising smaller quantities • recognising numbers in different representations • exploring the composition of numbers to 10

The activities encourage children to have a go, concentrate, notice relationships and make connections between different representations of number.

The presentations are designed as a teacher-led element of a broad early years curriculum and work particularly well alongside practical resources, mathematical play and everyday opportunities to explore number.