Maths Games and Activities at home for 6-7 year olds to make learning addition, subtraction, multiplication & division fun for every child
Try these brilliant fun maths activities and with board games, dice games and card games, all with parent advice, feel empowered to help your young child understand maths
Fun family activities and games learning about subtraction with the help of a rekenrek slavonic grid.
Clown Subtraction
Children find subtraction sums much more difficult than adults might expect. When objects are physically taken away it makes sense. These games and activities are based on a modification of a Slavonic grid. Whilst this offers a more abstract means of support the visual aspect is really special as it links with our brains ability to see five objects without counting but no more. The Slavonic grid has proved a brilliant support for children with dyslexia and discalculia and with such powerful imagery your child will certainly benefit too. Your child will be doing lots and lots of subtraction sums whilst also experiencing the brain stimulation of the anticipation of a chance event -throwing a particular number to win!
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Fun family board game developing understanding of maths symbols.
61 Dizzy Doughnut
The advantage of playing with maths symbols and numbers on cards is that you can easily move them around and try out lots of different variations- your child will not only be doing lots of sums in a friendly way but also discovering the patterns and relationships that connect them.
With an element of chance combined with encouragement to think ahead and choose strategically the dizzy doughnut game offers opportunity for mathematical learning at a high level along with lots of fun.
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Fun family activities and games developing mastery of addition facts.
62 Lucky Squares
In a maths workbook helping your child remember addition facts could look like this BUT if your child already remembers the facts they will be learning...nothing and if they don’t remember them all, this ’test’ can lead to humiliation and sow the seed for the thought “I’m rubbish at maths.”
Instead share finding lots of different ways to make 7,8 and 9 with visual clues in paint, in photos and others made to eat and really help the learning and have fun.
Practise the skills with addition games where careful strategy might help you get ahead-if you want to of course!
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Fun family activities and games learning about multiplication, the ten times tables, and related division facts.
63 Take Tens
The ten times table is often learned by rote as a rhyme. Research suggests that table tests of this rote learning can be the start of maths anxiety, hindering the learning of maths for a lifetime. BUT good mathematicians are often NOT good rote learners!!!
When you share these times tables games with your child at home they will discover that multiplication by ten can be connected to real life through playing with 10p coins. They will experience powerful imaginary images as some of those coins disappear from view helping the brain move from the maths of dealing with objects to more challenging abstract concepts.
With raisins or chocolate the connection between multiplication and division reveals itself naturally... and you will have something good to eat too.
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Fun family activities and games learning about place value.
64 Place Value Lotto
Discover together some strategies for estimating how many one pence coins you take in a handful and you’ll have some insight into why the number system we use today, developed to make counting easier, over 1500 years ago in India.
With the help of powerful images, further place value games help you explore with your child what the digit ‘4’ stands for in the number 48 for example. Visualising numbers in this way is very helpful. Reading 48 as forty eight is universally mastered but it’s easy to miss connecting the ‘4’ to four lots of ten and from here difficulties can mount.
Further number games help you and your child focus on sound, cleverly encouraging the development of pictures of numbers in our brains, which will always be available to help us.
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Fun family games learning about take away with the help of a number line.
65 Loopy Counting
Eating treats and then replacing the number eaten gets the ‘take away’ and ‘counting back’ learning journey started in a fun practical way for you and your child!
A number line can be a powerful learning tool giving insight into number work from the very beginning through to ‘A’ level. The second game is based around a loopy number line carefully designed to ensure your child’s count is between the numbers rather than being led to the wrong answer by counting how many numbers lie in-between.
Have a laugh with the final story game, seriously challenging everyone's memory!
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Fun family activities to use at home learning about multiplication and the two times tables in a practical way.
66 Take Two
Included are times tables games and activities which offer powerful real life visual images of the connection between multiplication and addition. There are lots of beautiful and useful connections in mathematics that often get lost in a formal education setting but they can more easily be discovered handling real life materials at home. Recognising these connections is absolutely key to maximising our brain’s powerful learning potential.
The games cleverly develop more powerful pictures in your child’s brain by moving from handling objects onto some of those objects being hidden (with the chance to peep!)
The final activity encourages you both to get creative and experience the two times table as a picture on paper- more abstract and therefore the next level of challenge for your child to process and connect.
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Fun family activities and spinner game learning to count in tens.
67 Clips and Beads
Understanding the role that ten plays in our number system (‘place value’) is pivotal in mathematical attainment. Research reveals that it is the key factor in passing or failing GCSE maths. A number line on a screen or page can be helpful but one you can hold, feel and move and then relate to one on a page, is a whole lot more powerful.
Enjoy making one together and the value of this maths activity at home will be priceless - you’ll probably be surprised what one hundred looks like too.
Play these maths games and have fun as your child develops the concepts that underpin place value and a whole lot more.
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Fun kids activities and bingo game to use at home learning about place value.
68 Bingo Ninety Nine
The benefit of actually handling two cards from a set labelled 1-9 is that you can move them around and make two different two digit numbers. Enjoy playing with this, with a fun twist and try to celebrate your child’s ah ha moment after which you’ll find it harder to win!
Have fun playing bingo with the specially designed cards and your child will have an incentive to fully understand the different parts of a two digit number.
The final place value game relates the learning back to real life and gets your brains fizzing with an element of chance.
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Fun kids activities and card game to use at home learning about length.
69 Longer Shorter
Making sense of a length, say 460mm, in a catalogue can lead us into all sorts of problems! Share getting a feel for measurements with these games and activities handling real objects. What you will share with your child is so valuable, you simply cannot pick up this experience from the page of a maths workbook or a screen and such activities are difficult to manage with a large class of children. Get creative and with the final activity you will even get to practise using the most fundamental structure in engineering!
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Fun kids activities to use at home learning to order numbers up to one hundred.
70 Make the biggest number
Starting with three cards labelled 0-9, but choosing only two of them to make a number gets the learning started thinking about place value, systematic working and the basis of probability.
Play the second game together and you will notice, as your child’s understanding of our number system grows, you will find it harder to win!
The final game will help you have some fun as you notice the many numbers all around us.
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Fun kids activities and tiddlywinks game to use at home learning about addition of multiples of ten.
71 Flip the Counters
Make some parcels of ten of something good to eat to get your child started with these games adding multiples of ten. Adding four parcels of ten to six parcels of ten builds naturally upon your child’s understanding of 4+6. Play with a slavonic abacus, showing 100 dots cleverly coloured in patterns of five to help our brains see a number without counting, and your child will have more powerful imagery to really get a feel for the numbers you are working with.
In the final game you can have fun playing with hundreds, thousands or millions- your child will probably choose millions!
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Fun kids activities and games to use at home learning about ordering number up to one hundred.
72 Piggy in the Middle 2
Building upon earlier activities these maths games and activities will help your child to secure their knowledge of the patterns in our number system up to one hundred.
Using the support of a bead number line takes the learning one step on from having written numbers in a hundred square and offers even more powerful learning opportunities when it is handled with eyes closed.
The final activity embeds the maths learning into real life experience.
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Fun kids activities and board game to use at home learning about multiplication and the two times tables.
73 Twenty or Bust
Have fun with 2p coins for the first game and your child’s maths learning will be supported, but at a higher level than if they could actually see the pairs of two objects.
Play the second game several times and as your child learns strategies to win they will be powerfully working with the two times table forwards and backwards!
No-one quite knows why but writing a sum in words can be really helpful to the maths learning process. Get creative and give it a try in the final activity.
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Fun kids activities and board game to use at home learning about ten more and ten less.
74 Stars and Splats
Sharing the exploration of what happens when you find ten more and ten less than a number will strengthen your child’s understanding of patterns in our number system. A hundred square is a powerful tool, widely used in schools, particularly useful for this task.
These games add some fun and an element of chance to discovering the patterns in a hundred square. Research shows that when our brains are anticipating a chance event they are more open to learning-Wow!
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Fun kids activities and lotto game to use at home learning about number words.
75 Number Word Lotto
Play these number games and you will be helping your child discover when we use patterns and when we don’t as we read and write numbers in words.
Have fun as the three games take your child from reading two digit numbers and finding them on a number line, through matching numerals to number words and onto writing those numbers, not randomly as you would in a work book but on a giant hundred square where the patterns can powerfully reveal themselves.
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Fun kids activities and dots and boxes game to use at home learning about number up to one hundred.
76 Join the dots to 100
A 10 x10 grid with the numbers1-100, in order is a powerful learning tool to help your child see the patterns in our number system. Play these games with your child and they will get to know ‘a hundred square’, widely used in schools, with their eyes closed! A second game based on a hundred square encourages your child to start to use strategy, a high level mathematical skill.
In the final game you are guided to play with coins and discover how we can use 10’s and 1’s when trying to work out how many more to make one hundred.
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Fun kids activities and board game to use at home learning about 2x, 5x, 10x, times tables using arrays.
77 Arrays
While educationists disagree about how important it is for a young child to know lots of multiplication facts, all agree that knowing the relationships between different times tables is really helpful.
Get creative with times tables arrays and these relationships will be revealed in powerful picture form. Play these games with your child and their learning will be supported by hearing and saying lots of table facts alongside seeing the array pictures whilst having fun.
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Fun kids activities and card game to use at home learning about addition mastery in year 2.
78 Addition memory
Have fun with these addition games and your child will be getting loads of practise remembering addition facts up to 10+10. Talk about the science of mistakes- they help your brain grow- there will be no crosses to make your child feel a failure.
Start with the support of outstretched fingers, then through finding matching sums on cards, then on to practise the learning with a puzzle on the internet.
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Fun kids activities and board game to use at home learning about multiplication and the five times tables.
79 Fifty or Bust
The five times table is often learned by rote as a rhyme. Research suggests that table tests of this rote learning can be the start of maths anxiety, hindering the learning of maths for a lifetime. BUT good mathematicians are often NOT good rote learners!!!
When you share these games with your child they will discover that multiplication by five can be connected to real life through playing with 5p coins.
Play the second game several times and as your child learns strategies to win they will be powerfully working with the five times table forwards and backwards! The final activity is a classic one used to add understanding of a concept when saying a rhyme. Taking turns with your child will be a special opportunity to extend this maths learning even further. Have fun anywhere, anytime.
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Fun kids activities to use at home learning about the language of direction.
80 Find the treasure
Share these maths games and as your child moves their whole body to follow words in the language of direction those words will begin to make sense in a much more powerful way than exercises on a page could ever bring.
A further activity involving drawing a simple map involves some tricky concepts but it might be more fun if the map isn’t very accurate!
Exploring the python turtle provides a fun purpose for the language of direction and gets you started on computer programming!
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Fun kids activities and lotto game to use at home learning about multiplication and times tables using arrays.
81 Multiplication Lotto
Get started by playing with coins and you will be helping your child connect and extend their knowledge of three times tables 2, 5 and 10.
Having many different ways of writing and several different words to use, when asking the same maths question offers a particular challenge. Your child may understand a concept but not understand that a question posed slightly differently refers to that concept. As you talk about maths with your child you will be really helping. Play the lotto game together and your child will be able to explore and connect lots of different ways of writing and drawing multiplication.
Then it would be good to encourage your child to practise the language of multiplication...you will need a chocolate bar.
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Fun kids activities to use at home learning about three dimensional shapes.
82 Shapetastic
Get started exploring the possibilities of using the camera on your phone as a brilliant, fun learning tool, helping your child connect the three dimensional shapes, that can be handled, to pictures which are two dimensional. By talking about what you can see and feel in three dimensions and connecting this to what you can see in a photo your child will be developing strong foundations to communicate about, draw and understand shape.
Further games take this development to the next level by playing with objects without being able to see them (they’ll be some peeking!)
The final shape game will help you both to have fun practising these concepts anywhere, anytime.
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Fun kids activities and car game to use at home learning about fractions.
83 Three Quarters Eat or Treat
Included are games and activities which offer real life visuals of fractions of quantities delivering the foundation that should help your child avoid being one of the many GCSE students who are unable to work with fractions. Handling numbers in real life can be a really powerful learning experience. Sharing this type of activity with your child is extraordinarily valuable, it’s very difficult to manage with a class of 30 pupils and it just can’t happen on a screen or in a workbook. The final activity encourages drawing -a fantastic aid to maths- and being what is called in educational lingo ‘open ended’ allows your child to make choices, express their creativity and support their independence as well as develop mathematical patterns of thought.
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Fun kids activities and bingo game to use at home learning about place value.
84 Bingo Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine.
The benefit of actually handling three cards from a set labelled 1-9 is that you can move them around and make six different three digit numbers. Enjoy playing with this, with a fun twist.
Have fun playing bingo with the specially designed cards and your child will have an incentive to fully understand the different parts of a three digit number.
The final place value game encourages new connections to really get a feel for number-what sound will 3004 make?
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Fun kids activities and card game to use at home learning about time.
85 Time Memory Game 2
Maybe it’s because they’ve simply had less experience of time – young children often find it a harder concept than adults would predict. You’ll be doing an especially valuable job starting by grounding the learning in your home life with these ideas to play games timing yourselves and using times important to your day to add to a lotto game. Finish off by doing some estimation a really useful skill that can underpin so much of maths.
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Fun kids activities and card game to use at home learning about logic
86 Shape Logic
Play with these shape logic cards and your child will have the chance to develop some logical thought, systematic working and practise some careful use of the language of shape.
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Fun kids activities to use at home learning about estimation and rounding
87 Rounding
Ask, “how many giant steps will you make before you reach the slide?” and get started with some estimation - a really useful skill that can underpin so much of maths. It also powerfully gives a real life context to the idea of rounding numbers to the nearest ten. By playing the second game, your child will be encouraged to make lots of choices, really helping them to puzzle over this important concept. Try out the ideas on your shopping basket and you may have some surprising results!
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Fun kids activities to use at home learning about weight.
88 Light Weight
Making sense of a weight say 25kg written on a web page can give us all some problems!
However the first activity works out you’ll have a purpose to getting a feel for weight.
Play games handling real materials, feeling and talking about weight and what you will be sharing with your child will be so valuable, simply unable to happen in a workbook or on a screen and difficult for a class teacher to manage with a large group of children.
Then try some ideas to reinforce the learning by helping your child notice the maths in your day.
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Fun kids activities and spinner game to use at home learning about addition and subtraction.
89 Backwards and Forwards
With the current emphasis on mastery of number facts in UK schools it is more important than ever that every child understands how the answer to one sum can be used to lead to the answer to lots of others.
Start playing these games on a number line and your child will start to visualise connections between additions, subtractions and for example how taking away nine from a number can be linked to taking away ten.
The game board for the next game is designed to help your child recognise other patterns that lead to sums having the same answers.
The final game involves thinking several steps ahead to really challenge understanding of subtraction.
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