Maths Activities

Change

Description: This game will help students to remember the appearance and values of different coins. Students must carry out simple additions in order to work out which collections of coins they would need to buy a priced item.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to recognise a variety of maths words and have an increased understanding of their meaning.

Maths Vocabulary

Description: It is important to develop students’ learning and understanding of mathematical vocabulary and reinforce that learning. In this activity students will identify maths words by matching them to other words with the same meaning.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to recognise a variety of maths words and have an increased understanding of their meaning.

Fraction Frolics

Description: Fractions can be quite daunting for some students, so this game has been devised to help them recognise the value of fractions both in words and numbers. We have related the activity to food and cooking, so students will also be inventing some original fun dishes.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to work out whether a fraction is more or less than a quarter, a half or a whole number.

Football Scores

Description: Students have the challenge of sorting out two sets of information to get the right football results. The only way that they can do this is by exchanging information individually or in pairs. The activity encourages collaboration as well as mathematical logic.
 
Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to work collaboratively and apply their mathematical skills to solve a problem.

Number Bonds

Description: Students can practise the number bonds for 10 and 20, while playing a game. They will roll a dice and progress along a board by working out the difference between 10 or 20 and the number rolled. This activity encourages quick mental arithmetic.

Learning Outcomes: Students will have increased their ability to add numbers together quickly through recognising the number bonds for 10 and 20.

How Much How Many

Description: The aims of this activity are to encourage pupils to know wether they should use ‘how much?’ or ‘how many?’ when describing a quantity. They will also use the language of justification to describe their reasoning.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will have developed the mathematical vocabulary relating to describing a quantity. They will also have practised their reasoning skills.

Book Mystery

Description: This game was developed to give students a richer level of vocabulary, in a fun way. It introduces some well known similes, and having seen how a simile is constructed students can then be encouraged to develop their own.  If you make any interesting changes please send them to the address below so that we can expand our library of resources.

Learning Outcomes: Students will have developed an understanding of how similes work and will be able to make up some of their own.

Measuring

Description: Looking at the historical context of the way things used to be measured gives us an understanding of some of the language still used today. We want pupils to imagine that they lived hundreds of years ago and that they need to do some measuring. We have left some squares blank for pupils to put in other ways of measuring.
Like many of our activities this one is designed to encourage children to research and produce further examples of tasks and more methods of measuring.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will have gained an understanding of the different ways in which things can be measured.

Four in a Row

Description: Four in a Row is a fun way for pupils to practise their mental arithmetic either by adding or subtracting numbers while playing Connect Four. To vary the activity it can be played speaking the numbers in different languages or using different number systems.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to add and subtract simple numbers in their head without use of calculators.

Decimal Street

Description: This activity has been devised to help pupils with the understanding of fractions and decimals written in different ways. You can adapt the cards to make it easier or more difficult depending on your pupils’ ability. You could also record the numbers in different languages for those whose second language is English.

Learning Outcomes: Pupils will be able to express their knowledge of decimal places.

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