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 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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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 Games for Students Aged 11-13
A selection of games published by BEAM for students to practise using their understanding of the mathematical topics of fractions, decimals and percentages whilst developing a strategic approach. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Three in a row - strategy game using division with decimals • Halves…
Fraction 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, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities with their mathematical content are: •…
Fraction Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide a means by which students can practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of fractions and decimals. • Halves and thirds - a game for two players requiring students to find fractional quantities of numbers • Planetary wars - a dice game for two players requiring…
Fraction Activities for Students Aged 9-11
A selection of resources published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems, investigations and puzzles to practise and consolidate students' understanding of fractions. • Fraction patterns - drawing diagrams of equivalent fractions • Decimal jigsaw - ten by ten grid in…
Fraction Games for Students Aged 7-9
A selection of games published by BEAM to help students practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of fractions and decimal equivalents. • Coloured shapes - colouring fractions of shapes according to a rule • 3 fractions in a line - strategy game, working out a fraction of a quantity • Halves…
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 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…
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 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,…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 7-9
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. • Nearest to 30 - students use dice to generate digits which can then be multiplied by either five or ten to try to reach a set target. • Nearest to 500 - students use dice to…
Place Value Activities for Students Aged 7-9
Published by BEAM, these two activities can be used to develop students' understanding of ordering and place value using numbers up to 200. • Jigsaw uses numbers from 101 to 200. Students have to cut out the pieces then arrange them into a ten by ten grid. • What's in a date? - students have to organise…
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: •…
Number Games for Students Aged 11-13
Published by BEAM this selection of games allows students to practise and consolidate their understanding of properties of number, including factors and square numbers. • Factor score - identifying factors in two-digit numbers • Factors game - strategy game to make a line of four numbers with selected factors •…
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…
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…
Number 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 games to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. • Bingo with a difference - using multiples • Cover…
Number Games for Students Aged 7-9
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value and properties of number. • 2s and 5s - multiples of two and five • Multiples of three - identifying multiples of three • Read my mind - multiples and more or less • Recognising odd and even…
Number 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, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' knowledge of properties of number. • 2-digit problem - investigating the number…
Number Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of number recognition, multiples and ordering. • Missing tens - identifying multiples of ten • Missing twos - identifying multiples of two • Odd or even - identifying odds and evens on different dice • Odds…
Number Games for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM, this game gives students opportunities to read, count and sequence numbers. Students roll a die, move the appropriate number of places and if they land on a missing number they need to identify what it should be. • Missing numbers - a dice game for two players who are required to read the number they land…
Number Activities for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM, this activity requires students to write different number sequences with the number eight in the middle of the sequence. The exercise consists of sequences consisting of five numbers but could be started with three numbers and extended to sequences with more than five numbers. There is also an opportunity to talk…
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…
Counting Activities for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, the activity What's what? challenges students to identify numbers and match them to a list of given properties including, negative, square, and mixed numbers before deciding which description(s) fit several numbers. Students are then asked to make up their own descriptions that fit several numbers.
Counting Games for Students Aged 7-9
Two games, published by BEAM, to help Key Stage Two students to develop their counting and sorting skills. • Big numbers - a game for two players requiring students to use the results of rolling four dice to write down a four digit number and then read out the number written. • Writing numbers - a game for two players…
Counting Activities for Students Aged 7-9
This dot to dot activity, from the Maths of the Month series published by BEAM, challenges students to recognise and sequence numbers from 80 to 104, producing a picture of a house. • Dot to dot - sequencing two digit numbers.