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Bigger Than a Digger

Which numbers are bigger and which are smaller

Ages 5-8 Numbers and counting Free, no sign-up

Play Bigger Than a Digger More in The Bobbing Billabong

How it plays

The screen splits into 'smaller than' and 'bigger than'. Numbers drift about and your child sends each to the right side. The ranges grow as the levels go on — first around five, then ten, then twenty.

What it's for

Which numbers are bigger and which are smaller. Your child sets the difficulty on the first screen — how fast things move, how many there are — so the game meets them where they are rather than deciding they aren't good enough.

There is no score to lose, no timer running out on them, and no way to fail. A level ends when it's won. That's the only way it ends.

What it practises

Bigger and smaller. Knowing which number is more, and which is less.
AC9MFN03 (Mathematics, Foundation); AC9M1N01 (Mathematics, Year 1)
Reading numbers. Knowing numerals and what they're called.
AC9MFN01 (Mathematics, Foundation)

The codes are from the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (for three- to five-year-olds) and the Australian Curriculum v9 (Foundation to Year 2). Each links to the official wording. Every skill, and the games for it.

What it costs, and what we collect

Nothing, and nothing. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Which games have been played is remembered on your own device and is never sent anywhere. The full version is here, and it's short.

A four and a nine had a terrible snigger, They argued all day over which one was bigger, They measured each other, then drew up a figure — And one of them turned out Bigger Than a Digger!

Where it lives

Bigger Than a Digger lives in The Bobbing Billabong — numbers and counting. It works on a phone, a tablet or a classroom screen, and once it's been opened it keeps working with no signal at all.