Number Activities for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and cross-curricular activities to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding of proprties of number. • Find my number - using properties…
Money and Measure Activities for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of early years mathematics. It includes challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding in the topics of money and measurement. • Fruit shop…
Shape Activities for Students Aged 9-11
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' understanding of shape and space. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: •…
Counting Activities for Students Aged 3-5
• A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of early years mathematics. They include challenging problems and resources to help students practise and consolidate their counting and number recognition skills. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: • Numbers - number recognition •…
Place Value Activities for Students Aged 9-11
In this activity, published by BEAM, students have to solve mathematical clues to discover a hidden four-digit number. Each place value has a different clue which requires students to solve a problem using a variety of operations including squaring numbers, adding and subtracting decimals and using BODMAS correctly. This resource,…
Data Handling Activities for Students Aged 9-11
Jingle Bells, a Christmas themed activity, published by BEAM. In this activity, students have to identify a range of musical notes. Students are required to construct a tally chart. From the results of the tally chart a bar chart can be drawn. Students then have to interpret their results by deciding which student shoould…
Calculation Activities for Students Aged 7-9
A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities, and their mathematical content, are: • How many squares - using connection…
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Calculation Games for Students Aged 5-7
These games, published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics, can be used to practise and consolidate students' early mathematical understanding. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Three in a line - addition up to 12 • Add or subtract - addition and subtraction to 12 • Add and…
Place Value Activities for Students Aged 5-7
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and develop students' mathematical understanding. The three activities and their mathematical content are: •…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Make a two digit number - comparing two digit numbers • Numbers in a row - using dice to generate numbers to be placed in…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. • Aim for 500 - in this game both players roll the dice and use the numbers to make two three-digit numbers, then add them up. Whoever gets a total closest to 1500 wins the game. •…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 11-13
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, rounding and ordering. • One or less - involves students choosing numbers including decimals and dividing them to try to make a number close to one or two after rounding. • Round to a whole - students score…
Data Handling Games for Students Aged 7-9
Published by BEAM, these two data handling games are from the Maths of the Month series. Three digits - a game for two players. Each player takes turns to place a counter on a number. The winner is the first player to have three counters on numbers which contain the same digit. Venn Diagram Game - a game for two players. Players…
Data Handling Games for Students Aged 9-11
This game, published by BEAM, poses a number of questions aimed at developing students' understanding of simple probability using a set of number cards. Probably - a game for two players. The chooser chooses a card from the set of cards. The guesser has to guess whether the card id shows an odd or an even number. Game…
Money and Measure Activities for Students Aged 9-11
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. It includes challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: •…
Shape Games for Students Aged 11-13
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of shape and space. The games, all taken from the Maths of the month series, and their mathematical content are: • Angle estimation game - estimating and measuring angles • Isosceles triangle game - playing against a partner…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Shape Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to practise and consolidate their knowledge and understanding of shape and space. The three games, with their mathematical content, are: • Angles - identifying right, acute and obtuse angles in shapes • Coordinates grid game - generating co-ordinates…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Counting Games for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of early years mathematics. The games enable students to develop their skills of number recognition, counting, comparison and writing of numbers. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Reading numbers game - matching numbers in words to numerals •…
Number Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of numbers and their properties. • Even and odd - strategy game • Factor-2-3-5 - using dice to generate numbers with specific factors • Multiples - square numbers and multiples • Numbers in boxes - completing…
Fraction Games for Students Aged 5-7
This game for two players, published by BEAM, requires students to halve even numbers by playing a game. Students spin a spinner, half the number and then collect the correct number of counters. The winner is the student with the most counters after five rounds. The game offers an opportunity to discuss the properties of odd and…
Calculation Games for Students Aged 7-9
These resources, published by BEAM, are aimed at Key Stage Two and give students opportunities to practise and consolidate their mathematical knowledge through playing games. The games and their mathematical content are : • Shapes - counting sides of shapes • 20 or more - addition to 20 • Add 9 - single…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Shape Activities for Students Aged 7-9
A selection of activities, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' understanding of shape and space. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: •…
Money and Measure Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games require students to play in twos, using coins and dice to develop their knowledge of money and time. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • 15 pence - using 1p, 2p and 5p coins • Balloons - counting coins • Buying toys - reading and saying amounts of money •…
Data Handling Games For Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these two games encourage students to develop their skills of sorting shapes using one criterion and numbers using one or two criteria. • Sorting - a game for two players requiring one student to choose which shapes go inside the circle and to make up a label for the circle. The second student has to guess…
Shape Activities for Students Aged 5-7
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and games to develop and consolidate students' understanding of shape and space. • Cat toys - recognising and matching spatial patterns •…
Number Activities for Students Aged 5-7
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. • Adding next-door numbers - develops an understanding…
Money and Measure Activities for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of mathematics. It includes challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding of the topics of capacity, length and time. The activities, with their…
Fraction Activities for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, this activity allows students to demonstrate their understanding of a half of an object by colouring objects with two different colours in proportions that represent halves. • Half and half - a worksheet requiring students to colour half of each of the pictures shown one colour, the other half a different…
Data Handling Activities for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM this is a data handling activity for early years students. The task requires students to compare sets of toys presented in party bags. The students are to identify which toys are missing from which bags. This activity is ideal for exploring strategies for success on such a task and could lead on to simple…
Calculation Games for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles which help students to consolidate their mathematical understanding. The activities and their mathematical content are: • Choose and divide - division using decimals • Choices - multiplication •…
Shape Activities for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of early years mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: Dog…
Counting Activities for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these three activities from the Maths of the Month series allow students to practise their number skills of recognition, addition and subtraction in a puzzle context. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: • Number name crossword - writing numbers in words • Number crossword 2…