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The Mathscots
The Mathscots animation series is designed to support both teachers and families in engaging children in mathematics. The stand-alone episodes explore a range of maths and numeracy concepts aligned to the Victorian Curriculum Foundation to Level 2.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation Year 1 Year 2
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement Number Statistics
- Topic
- Properties of number Operating with number Informal measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Publisher
- Victoria State Government Department of Education
- Copyright
- © State Government of Victoria. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Other terms
- animated video teaching notes
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