Reception: Introducing zero

Children will already have an understanding of ‘nothing’ or ‘none’ and in Reception they will be shown that the number name for nothing is ‘zero’ and it can also be shown as the numeral ‘0’. There are plenty of counting down to zero songs and other opportunities to use zero...

Year 1: Understanding 20

A huge amount of work is done in Year 1 to help children develop their understanding of 10. A good understanding of 10 will then help with understanding 20. Children will explore different ways of making 20, especially that it can be made up of 20 ones or 2 tens....

Gold, Silver and Bronze Certificates

Now available, colourful award certificates which children will love. A4 or A5 size with a choice of our famous Maths Rats, Tommy Turtle or Brainy Pigs. Because of their design these can be awarded for both achievement and effort. With 24 different certificates in total these are a really handy...

Wet breaks/holiday activities and matchstick puzzles

Wet playtimes, or just a rainy day with nothing to do – why not try one of our activities. Varying from word searches and number searches to Sudoku they all have a mathematics theme. Some are very challenging: get the matchsticks out to solve the puzzles! Wet Break Activities Matchstick...

Sport

Sport provides one of the very best real-world contexts for teaching maths. Whether its calculating scores, measuring distances or analysing statistics children can see the direct application of maths in the sports they love. The passion that many children have for sports can be harnessed to motivate them in the...

Printable Games

Board games are a great way to improve logical thinking and maths concepts. A great favourite of mine, is Deadly Red, a game of strategy where the person who takes the red counter at the end loses! It might appear at first that it is luck as to who wins,...