The Counting Bus - Double Decker Set

The Counting Bus Double Decker Set is an engaging early maths and counting resource designed to help young children develop number sense and understand quantities through imaginative, hands-on play.

Ideal for early years classrooms, nurseries, primary schools and small-group maths activities, this interactive bus set makes number learning practical and fun.

Children place and remove passenger spots on the bus as a teacher tells a simple bus story. This hands-on approach encourages pupils to recognise numbers as groups of quantities rather than simply counting individual objects, helping build a stronger understanding of number composition.

For example, children can represent 6 passengers as a group of 4 and a group of 2 or as two groups of 3. This supports early understanding of number relationships, grouping and different ways of making the same number.

The white and red window arrangements help children connect the bus representations with familiar beaded images and five-wise and pairs-wise arrangements, reinforcing visual number recognition and early number sense.

The set includes a teaching guide and sufficient materials for a group of 6 children, making it particularly useful for teacher-led small-group maths activities.