Maths Chest 3: Introduction and Student Materials
This resource contains an Introduction to Maths Chest 3 detailing its aims and how it was designed to be used. It also includes the teaching materials needed to deliver it successfully. The scheme is organised into the following topic areas: • Sorting • Pictorial representation • Measure • Shape and space •…
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…
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…
Data Handling Activities for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, this is a data handling activity which focuses on properties of shape. Students have to identify and draw toys that are round. Studeents are then required to sort them from those that are not round. • Sorting toys - a task requiring students to sort using one criterion. This could be used as a follow up…
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…
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 •…
Money and Measure Activities for Students Aged 5-7
A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. It includes challenging problems, puzzles and resources to practise and consolidate students mathematical understanding of money and days of the month. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: • Calendar for January - writing…
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…
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…
Calculation Activities for Students Aged 5-7
A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles to help students practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding. The activities, presented with their mathematical content, are: • Words - recognising multiples of 5 and single digit…
Calculation Activities for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM, this collection of calculation activities offers opportunities for early years students to practice their understanding of number and number recognition. • Make 10 dots - making 10 • Counting spots - single digit addition and comparison • Grapes - making 5 • Who has most? - counting…
Calculation Games for Students Aged 3-5
These resources, published by BEAM, are aimed at the early years and provide games in which students can practise saying numbers and develop their counting skills. • Nest eggs - saying and counting numbers up to 6 • 1 more or less spots - saying numbers one more than or one less than • Making dominoes -…
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…
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 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: •…
Counting Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, this game for students in Key Stage One helps develop their recognition of number and their counting skills. • Dots and dots - a simple game for two players requiring students to take turns to recognise patterns of dots on a dice as quickly as possible. The player who gets the most correct answers is the…
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…
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 •…
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 •…