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Merging the explicit with the imagined

 For those that have been following my journey, you will know that it started with play and a massive passion for drama (mantle of the expert in particular.) Number Agents was born out of this, a brilliantly effective way to bring maths to life in an imagined, but very authentic world.   My book Number Agents if available through my TPT store and it explains all the ins and outs and whys of this world.   Last year (as you will know if you have been following this journey) I encountered a class where more than half had entered school with significant developmental needs that I needed to meet, they also had challenges when it came to number, particularly around numerosity...deep understanding of quantity. There are quite a few posts on here about my scope and sequence, so I won't bore you here.  However I was primed to make a change for my children because structured literacy had been part of my journey for a few years at this point. While I loved teaching th...