Usk Matching Cards
Simple cards to help parents develop their child’s lifetime skills [...how?]
The Usk set of cards encourages dialogue in support of the number-recognition stage of development. The cards have been designed by teachers and printed by a specialist playing-card company in the United Kingdom.
A boxed set of Usk educational cards
There are 56 cards in the box. They illustrate the several ways of describing the ten digits used throughout the World. This set is labelled after the river Usk, in South Wales. A picture of the Usk is on the reverse of all cards, and also on the box.
The reverse of the box ~
showing river Usk in its middle reaches
Some Usk cards taken out of their box
These three cards show different ways of representing five
The printing on the Usk set of cards puts them into six groups:~
The digits 0 to 9
The words zero to nine
An empty 3x3 grid, followed by a sequence of 1 to 9 dots
zero to nine dots arranged randomly
Ordinals first-fifth
a further selection of appropriate words
Other sets of busy.cards are available: all are named after rivers: all have been designed as lighthearted aids, to help carers to chat with the infants in their charge. If you’d like a slightly fuller introduction to busy.cards, you might enjoy visiting our Welcome Page.
