Nursery and Primary Teaching Programmes

• Stern equipment develops a child's natural sense of numbers and number concept
• Stern stimulates, encourages or strengthens a child's cognitive learning systems - required for meaningful learning to take place - through visual, auditory and kinaesthetic teaching and learning
• The equipment and measurement approach makes obvious the relationships between numbers and number patterns
• number facts are processed more quickly as 'recall' from long-term memory, saving time and space in working-memory for ongoing processes. This makes for quicker and more efficient calculation

Also developing, is a child's ability to:

• See pattern in numbers
• See connections between numbers
• See structures within numbers
• Picture base ten structures

The foundation building blocks of number work