Coloured Bar Printable

This coloured bar printable is designed to support children as they learn to represent word problems using bar models. Before jumping straight into pencil-and-paper drawing, children can use the coloured bars to build, move, compare, and adjust the parts of the problem physically.

It gives them a concrete way to understand:

• part-whole relationships
• comparison problems
• missing parts
• more than / less than situations
• how quantities relate to one another