Teign Busy Cards

The digit cards

On this website we describe several ways of making ~ and using ~ small cards for education. Such cards are particularly useful for for home-life-development.

We have given the various styles of cards we have designed the names of rivers. The cards we describe in this folder are named after the Devonshire, UK, river called the Teign.

Two sets of ten digit cards lying at random on a table top
Two sets of the ten Teign Digit Cards

One set of teign digit cards arranged in order, and in a line, with zero on the left
One set of the Teign Digit Cards

Teign digit cards are available as doubles to enable decade counting.
Teign Digit Cards are available as 'doubles'

Five teign digit cards held on an open adult hand
Five Teign Cards held on an adult hand

The Teign cards shown here are digitally printed on cartridge paper ~ securely glued to 2mm thick leather. This makes them easy for small fingers to pick up and hold in the hand. The cards ~ or tiles ~ are lacquered, and even with everyday use they should last several generations. Various symbols are available.

A box, with the lid removed, with a section of digit and symbol cards
Digit and symbol cards bundled into an A5 sized box

One intended use for these cards is for illustrating number-talk at home ~ before the use of paper and pencil. Even when writing skills are comfortably mastered there are numerous occasions when it is easier to move tiles around than it is to rub-out discarded workings.

Several piles of smooth coloured stones. Two piles have a card denoting how many stones are in the pile.
How many stones?

Ten digit cards are lying on the table ~ one of them is upside down. What number digit is the unseen one?
Which digit-card is upside down?




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Edge view of six digit cards held in the fingers of one hand. The remaining four cards from a set of ten digits, are lying on the table below.
These Teign digit cards are made of 2mm thick leather

Ten cards are fanned-out between fingers and thumb to show the backs of the two millimetre, thick, red leather, Teign digit cards
The backs of the cards are the smooth ~
finished surface of the leather

The Teign cards are just one of several varieties of card produced by busybusy.co ~ a partnership based in Cornwall, UK. The other varieties of card ~ also named after local rivers ~ are described here.

busybusydotco® makes a wide variety of educational aids and notes designed primarily for home use.

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