The red double decker Learning Bus is a firm favouriteWith itsfor toddlers wanting to learn through play.space for 20 passengers the opportunities for counting,sorting and arranging are endless. Counting to ten andthen having any additional passengers moved upto thetop deck is realistic to real-life and adds to theunderstanding of base 10 as a key mathematicalconcept. Components for the set are colour-coded andan icon on the top of the people counters tells you if theperson represented is a man, woman, child, elderly oreven disabled. A flip book with number challengeshelps the children to remain focused upon the task inhand. And for an additional level of mathematics thereare two dice which when thrown, set a task to movecharacters from upstairs to down or visa-versa, thus ,introducing the notion of adding or taking away toreach a solution.
