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Sweet Counter Until 1996 Chris Mayo was a full-time primary school teacher. One day she forgot to take in the straws she normally used to teach place value and, inspired, she spent her coffee break cutting out card jars and sweets to represent hundreds, boxes to represent tens, and individual sweets to represent units and tried these out on her Year 3 class. She was gratified by the response - 'Their eyes lit up as they "saw" the concept and understood the value of numbers'. She was using a currency the children could easily understand. Sweet Counter Place Value cards were quickly followed by Flip Flap fractions illustrated by pizzas, pies and puddings.

Until 1996 Chris Mayo was a full-time primary school teacher. One day she forgot to take in the straws she normally used to teach place value and, inspired, she spent her coffee break cutting out card jars and sweets to represent hundreds, boxes to represent tens, and individual sweets to represent units and tried these out on her Year 3 class. She was gratified by the response - 'Their eyes lit up as they "saw" the concept and understood the value of numbers'. She was using a currency the children could easily understand. Sweet Counter Place Value cards were quickly followed by Flip Flap fractions illustrated by pizzas, pies and puddings.

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