Make a pattern

This is a sheet of hearts and the challenge is to make patterns. Now this could be with colours, patterns, numbers, letters, drawings, animals or anything the child chooses.
Patterns are great for Maths. If a child can make and see patterns then they will find Maths easier.

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Number recognition and fine motor skills

Another fab activity for counting and number recognition using pipe cleaners and small beads. Lots of practice with find motor skills too. Check out this link

Here you can push on the brighter children with a simple addition problem

Ordering activity

Fabulous idea for children to order numbers. Write the numbers on lolly sticks and layout a long sausage of play dough or plasticine. Check out this link.

Place value

Love this Maths activity to show place value. Please check out this link to find out more

Subtract from 10 connect 4 game

100 square puzzles - make your own

I love this! You can make your own 100 square puzzles.

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Subtraction as inverse to addition

I made these little houses to use for this activity. The child throws 2 dice and writes the numbers in the bottom corners of the roof of the house. Add them up to make the top number.
Then write the two addition and two subtraction number sentences in the house.

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Calculation wheel

The child has to do all the calculations and should get back to the original number providing I have done my maths right!

Number relations

This is a good activity for children to do to practise different skills.

Child chooses a number to write in the cloud. You could give a range eg. between 1 and 10 or 10 and 20 depending on the ability of the children. They they have to fill in all the boxes. I have uploaded a blank one too so you can write different things in to what I have done. I have put a small hundred square on there to help.

Maths area resources

Here are a few ideas for using in Maths areas or stations. The wheels need pegs with the correct answer on each peg. Child has to work out the answer and peg the correct peg to it.

You need to cut these up along the lines to make jigsaws.

The most amazing maths site ever!

I was blown away by the shear amount of activities and resources on this American site. So many fantastic ideas to use...

Happy exploring!

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Peg the number

I saw this idea on a German site and thought it was brilliant aswell as very adaptable to other things.
Basically you have to put numbers on pegs (a small sticker should do it). Number the pegs from 1-10. The child has to match the correct number to the number of Jellybeans.
This could be adaptable in many different ways.
Matching phonemes
Matching colours
Matching number sentences to the correct answer
Times tables
It is such a simple idea but fabulous for challenge areas in classrooms and look at all the fine motor skills that are needed to actually peg onto the wheel.

The list is endless.

I have made one for cvc words and emotional literacy

I used pegs and wrote with permanent markers, afterall how cheap are pegs?

5 little speckled frogs

I absolutely love this idea of creating a prop for the song '5 little speckled frogs' It could also be used to do numbers up to 5, adding, taking away etc

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Here are is some frog pictures which you could use or just go onto microsoft clipart and choose your own

You could adapt this tube idea for other songs or stories. Love it!

Jelly Bean maths

Of course you could use real Jelly Beans but if you just want an activity which is better for teeth the use these cards and questions.

100 square game

Learning objective is 1 more or 1 less
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move one forward. If they land on a blue square then they must move one backwards. If they land on a yellow then they win.

100 square game

Learning objective is adding and taking away 10
Children to play in pairs. Each throw a die in turn and move that number of squares. If they land on the red square they must move 10 forward (down 1). If they land on a blue square then they must move 10 backwards (up 1). If they land on a yellow then they win.

Here is the pdf version

Haunted house board game - adding

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Zap the dinosaur (number bonds to 10)

Zap the dinosaur game
Children have a game board each and a set of counters. Child picks a number card and zaps the corresponding bond to 10 on his/her board. The first person to zap all their dinosaurs is the winner. I have included a set of number cards but am sure you could use the digit cards from school.

Number gossip

A fab way of finding out about any number

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Number formation practise

These could be printed and laminated for lots of practise, or used as a worksheet. They could also be put together as a book.

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Here is an example picture.