Volume and Capacity: an Activity Pack
Published by BEAM this resource contains 21 activity cards on volume and capacity, which allow children to develop their mathematical skill by actively estimating, measuring and comparing capacity and volume. Developed by teachers, the cards help find a way of teaching which fits with the way children learn mathematics whilst…
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 3-5
Published by BEAM, this collection of games give students opportunities to practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of money, through coin recognition, counting and matching amounts of money. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Shopping - matching pence coins to numberals • Coins…
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 Games for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of mathematics games for use with early years students, published by BEAM. They include problems and puzzles, cross-curricular activities and resources to develop spatial awareness and pattern recognition. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: • Butterflies - using counters to make symmentrical…
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…
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 -…
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 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…
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 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 •…