A complete primary number programme for Years 3-8. The Nelson Maths series has been designed for all primary and intermediate teachers in New Zealand to assist with planning and assessing Number learning for students from Years 3-8. The series aims to assist teachers and students to make sense of the patterns, relationships and generalisations at the heart of the number system through better understanding of basic number facts. The series has been developed in accordance with both the aims and achievement objectives in the Number and Algebra strand of Mathematics in the New Zealand Curriculum and the aims of the Numeracy Project. Student books 1-5 available. The Teacher's Resource contains: Links to the 2006 New Zealand Curriculum Number and Algebra achievement objectives; useful information for integrating this series with your overall mathematics planning; lesson plans for each unit in the five Student Books; reproducible material masters and homelink sheets.