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Number World

Number World

One world. See a quantity whole — then split it, then know it forward and backward — until the number lives in the mind, not the fingers.
Built on Colburn, Wentworth & Ray's. Played with a bowl of garbanzos.

🦋 the climb · pick a rung

Which rung are we on?

Tap a rung to enter it. Each is its own room inside this one world.

1
Quantity Caught
subitize to 5
2
Five & Ten
making ten
3
Join & Separate
facts to 20
4
The Grouped Ten
place value
5
Equal Groups
× ÷ to 12

🦋 the soft rungs wake up as each is built. → fractions & decimals beyond.

Quantity, Caught

See a handful as a whole — don't count it. Then pull it apart.

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This week your beans can wear the story from your Path A book.

What to do — read it, run it
just for you

See the whole. Hold it. Break it. Put it back.
The garden is shared. 🦋 This world is for anyone learning their numbers. The dial does not know your age — the whole becomes parts becomes the whole, the same way every time.

🗺️ This is the world, not the lesson plan. Your curriculum page tells you what to do with Number World — which rung, when, and alongside which book. Come here to play; go there to know the path.
The free Didax manipulatives mirror the beans in your bowl. The screen begins it; your hands and voice finish it.