Domino Sorting
This NRICH maths activity focuses on the importance of odds and evens. It will help learners become more familiar with odd and even numbers, and number bonds to five. Children will have to use their skills of sorting and classifying to produce results which will lead them to making hypotheses and challenging them to justify findings.
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 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…
Incey Wincey Spider
This NRICH maths game is for two players and gives experience of moving along a number track. A more interesting version where the player has to land exactly on the end of the drain pipe to win uses two dice and allows the players to make decisions on which dice score to use. It can be a precursor to the introduction of negative…
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 •…
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…
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 •…
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…
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…
Shape Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to develop their knowledge and understanding of shape and space. The three games, all taken from the Maths of the Month series, are: • Play people - matching numbers to objects • Shapes - counting sides of shapes and recognising numerals •…
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…
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…
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 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…
Bone Bingo
This is a competitive game which tests children’s knowledge of bones, joints and their function. The teacher reads out a statement related to a bone or joint, and children cross off the answer if they have it. This resource was produced by Genetic Disorders UK, which provides schools with a host of free resources for increasing…
Starting Games
Starting Games, the first in series of three books of mathematical games from Spectrum written by Dave Kirkby. It was produced mainly for the primary years and those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. This book contains forty games, each in the form of: • a photocopiable gameboard or score sheet; •…
Perfectly Printable Puzzles
These themed science puzzles and pictures from Planet Science are designed for young children to colour in and then solve the puzzle. They can be used at home or in school, curriculum information is given for teachers and carers. The puzzles support these subjects: • Biology for three to five year olds • Biology for…
Materials
From the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), a database of 31 everyday materials, man made and natural, solid and liquid, transparent and opaque, allows students to explore these and many other properties. Materials on the database may be grouped according to one or more of their properties. Once students…
Humans and Animals
These activities from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) are designed to encourage students to think about the characteristics of a range of animals, including humans. A series of interactive games explore senses, movement, habitat, food, lifestyle, and appearance.