Fun maths at home
Share these maths activities, board games, dice games and card games and really help your child to understand maths.
Fun family maths activities and games learning to recognise small numbers without counting.
1 Hide Two and Seek
Discover how much you can really help your child with maths at home by having fun with these practical maths activities.
Introduce the learning by playing with real objects. All the educational research shows that this promotes the best maths learning, but children often miss out because it can’t happen on a screen or in a workbook, and doesn’t work so well with a large group of children.
Extend the maths learning with pictures. This is a bigger step than you might think but because those pictures are photos of real objects familiar to your child, you’re helping them take their learning to the next level in easy stages. Brilliant!
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Fun family maths activities and games to develop familiarity with the shape of numbers 1 to 9
2 Choose a prize
Beginner writers find lots of reasonable ways to form numbers that don’t quite match the recognised form.
Share colouring number shapes, and feeling number shapes in a bag - combine with a number shape board game and your child will have experienced very strong visual and tactile learning which will really help their ability to form the numbers with pen and paper.
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Fun family maths activities and games learning to recognise small numbers without counting.
1 Hide Two and Seek
Discover how much you can really help your child with maths at home by having fun with these practical maths activities.
Introduce the learning by playing with real objects. All the educational research shows that this promotes the best maths learning, but children often miss out because it can’t happen on a screen or in a workbook, and doesn’t work so well with a large group of children.
Extend the maths learning with pictures. This is a bigger step than you might think but because those pictures are photos of real objects familiar to your child, you’re helping them take their learning to the next level in easy stages. Brilliant!
To help a child with maths age 4 to 5. Most of content covered early in the reception year maths curriculum UK
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Fun family maths activities and games to develop familiarity with the shape of numbers 1 to 9
2 Choose a prize
Beginner writers find lots of reasonable ways to form numbers that don’t quite match the recognised form.
Share colouring number shapes, and feeling number shapes in a bag - combine with a number shape board game and your child will have experienced very strong visual and tactile learning which will really help their ability to form the numbers with pen and paper.
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Fun family maths activities and games to develop understanding that the last number in a count is the number label given to the whole set.
3 Magic counting Beans
Get the maths learning started in a fun way with a classic number rhyme. It’s actions help the whole body be involved in getting a feel for number, a superb foundation to build mathematical learning.
Make some magic counting beans, my absolute favourite as an easy way to bring numbers to life. They’re also great for addition, subtraction and your child will be getting an early introduction to probability too, Wow.
When they’re starting out with numbers a child may count ladybirds - one, two, three - but not realise that they can then say that there are three ladybirds in the group. It seems obvious but it isn’t. As you play and talk about the counting beans, this important link will be revealed.
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Fun family maths activities and dice game learning to touch count.
4 In the jungle
Pattern is fundamental to music and maths, and this is one reason why they are thought to be closely related. A number song is easier for a child to remember because of the relationship of the words and the musical pattern. Get singing and the rhythm will support your child’s memorisation of the order of numbers up to five.
By playing with real life objects in the counting game, you will share an experience very valuable to your child. 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. Objects of different sizes are deliberately chosen to touch-count as this extends the learning to the next step beyond touch counting very similar objects.
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Fun family maths activities, dice game and board game matching a number symbol to an amount.
5 Start to finish
Your child may be confident to say, for example, “eight” when she sees the abstract symbol ‘8’, and although to an adult it seems obvious it’s another big learning step to have a mathematical understanding of the amount eight.
Connecting physical actions to the numbers is the most powerful way to develop this learning. Have fun with these number recognition activities and games and what you share will be so valuable to your child’s learning. The numbers will be brought to life in a way that simply cannot happen on screens or on the pages of workbooks.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning the language of size.
6 Little big lotto
Being able to talk about how two things compare with each other is an important mathematical skill.
Starting this learning journey with your child’s clothes is a brilliant example of how maths at home can make so much more sense, linked to the familiar real world rather than being introduced on a screen or workbook. Have fun playing the little and big lotto game and extend the language you share.
Cooking together is a great way to help your child with maths at home. Try out these ideas for some recipe variations to make the language of comparison real for your child.
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Fun family maths activities and dice game learning the order of numbers 1 to 10
7 All in Order
Your child may be very confident to say “one, two, three,...nine, ten” as a rhyme. Although it seems to follow on, to put the symbols 1, 2, 3...9, 10 in order is another big maths learning step.
A number song is easier for a child to remember because of the relationship of the words and the musical pattern. Get singing and the rhythm will support your child’s memorisation of the order of numbers up to ten.
Play the ordering numbers dice game and by sharing only short parts of the sequence saying “three, four, five” for example, and you will be really helping your child to take their number learning to the next level.
With number cards your child can play with the order of the number symbols, and it’s very easy to make adjustments - no crosses needed!
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Fun family maths activities and games learning that the last number in the count is the number label given to the whole set.
8 More Magic Counting Beans
Make some magic counting beans, my absolute favourite as an easy way to bring numbers to life while having fun with maths. They’re also great for addition, subtraction and your child will be getting an early introduction to probability too, wow.
Using photos is a powerful way to support your child moving on their maths learning from counting objects to counting more abstract pictures which cannot be handled. It’s a lot harder for your child, but because they will be counting from an image of objects that they have already handled themselves you will be providing very special support for this maths learning.
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Fun family maths activities and counting board game learning to label a set of objects with a number e.g.5
9 Spotty Cats and Dogs
By sharing these activities with your child at home you will be supporting their maths learning in easy stages, so that they can be confident labelling a set of objects on the page with the symbol 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
By playing the counting board game several times your child may begin to develop the skill of ‘subitising’ sets of three and maybe four - that is, recognising the number in a group without counting. Recent research suggests that subitising can help children build images for numbers and that this in turn is a great foundation for them to learn number facts.
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Fun family maths activities and dice games learning to compare the size of numbers.
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Share the classic ‘one potato’ action song with your child and the pattern of the rhyme in the song will reinforce their memorisation of the sequence of numbers up to seven.
Play the game with different dice and not only will your child be securing their understanding about the size of numbers but they will also have valuable practise subitising numbers too.
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Fun family maths activities and board game recognising shapes square, circle and triangle.
11 Shape Match
Start sharing the language of shape with your child and marvel at the natural world as you sort through some leaves.
Play the shape game and your child will have lots of opportunity to identify squares, circles and triangles.
Get creative together as you explore the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. You might be surprised with some of the results!
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Fun family maths activities and dice games learning about the sequence of numbers up to ten
12 Three Two One
Share the first activity with your child and you will be cleverly moving their learning one important step on from saying “one, two, three, four...nine, ten” as a rhyme.
Make a number track together and this helpful aid to discovery and mathematical understanding will be more meaningful for your child.
Play the number game, and as your child discovers which dice to choose in order to win they will be demonstrating their understanding - no need for a test!
Extend the maths learning with a game that you can share anywhere, anytime!
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Fun family maths card game and activities looking for patterns.
13 Pattern-Match Dominoes
Recognising pattern is an important skill for mathematical understanding. It helps us to link different bits of learning together so that they make more sense.
Share a pattern hunt in your familiar surroundings, a great example of how maths at home can make so much more sense, and you might be surprised what you find! It will be a brilliant way to get you started sharing the language.
Play a special version of dominoes and have fun helping your child develop pattern recognition skills.
Share the final activity for some treats to eat… and some great maths language-learning opportunities.
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Fun family maths activities and games learning to subitise to three.
14 Three dabby doozle
Get started with a powerful creative maths activity, home-made paper boats and a traditional song and your child will have strong foundations to picture ‘three’ even when there are no objects to handle.
Play the game and have fun as your child develops the skills of seeing two, three and four without counting. This is called subitising. Watch out – when you start to lose they will have mastered it!
Help your child move the maths learning to the next level, developing the ability to recognise three objects in a picture, with the clever support of photos.
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Fun family maths activities and games learning about weight
15 Heavy Weight
Sharing these maths activities with your child at home will be so valuable. These practical experiences will underpin their learning for years to come. 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.
Share these fun family activities at home and there will be so much opportunity for your child to discover the maths of weight and volume, as well as the value of working systematically.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning to recognise one more.
16 Lois the ladybirds
The secure maths understanding of one more and one less will be a great foundation for your child to develop addition and subtraction skills.
Educational experts talk about an ideal sequence for maths learning as: start with concrete then, pictorial, then abstract. Starting the learning journey for any new maths playing with familiar objects at home is just brilliant - it’s the concrete bit and it can’t happen on a screen or in a workbook, and because it can be difficult to manage with a large class of children your child may miss out.
Share further activities and games with your child, have lots of fun, change the type of dice you use and they will be seamlessly guided through new levels of maths learning.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning the language used to talk about when things happen.
17 Against the Clock
No one is sure why, but it is much more difficult for a child to talk about time than adults would expect.
Share some very different activities and a time memory game with your child and you will share lots of language and a good deal of fun too.
Any topic linked with the daily life of your child will make more sense of the maths for them. For their learning about time this will be especially valuable.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning to count in twos.
18 In Pairs
Be confident that by sharing something as quick and simple as counting pairs of shoes with your child you will be giving meaning and strong foundations to their learning of the two times table.
The hidey activity cleverly takes the learning to the next level, encouraging your child to develop mental images that will always be available in their memory to help them.
Play the counting in twos board game, enjoy some treats and for the final fling get drawing and you will be supporting your child through new levels of maths learning.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning to sort objects in different ways.
19 Odd One Out
As adults we have developed unique ways to sort our stuff.
Share some of your ideas when you try these activities and games with your child and they will have brilliant opportunities to discover and talk about grouping objects in different ways.
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Fun family maths activities and games learning to subitise up to four.
20 Feel 4 Four
By playing games with a dotty dice your child may have learned to recognise the pattern of, for example, four dots as four. This is a brilliant start to their development of the skill of subitising - identifying how many there are in a set without having to count.
Research shows that babies can subitise two and toddlers three - but four is quite a big jump, and five is our brain’s limit without using pattern.
Share these fun games and activities with your child and they will be guided to develop subitising skills.
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Fun family maths activities and dice game learning to talk about length.
21 Getting shorter
Share some special moments with your child as you reflect and discover about the amazing growth of the human body - get talking about length too!
Food is a brilliant starting point for your child to have really meaningful experiences of maths at home. Play the game and have lots of fun discovering and sharing the rich language of size.
Help your child further develop the learning with an activity you can have fun with anywhere, anytime.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning about addition in a practical way.
22 Counting Fingers
Interestingly ancient number systems were not all based, as ours is, on ten - but it is no coincidence that we have ten fingers!
Share these fun family activities at home with your child and they will have lots of practical experience of addition, and in particular numbers which add to ten. Teachers call this ‘number bonds to ten’.
Because ten is fundamental to our number system, helping your child have a very secure basis for remembering these number facts will help them with a whole host of other maths.
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Fun family maths activities and dice game learning to recognise different coins.
23 Coin Collection
Children naturally enjoy playing with coins. By handling real coins at home rather than plastic imitations your child will be in a much better position to gain a secure knowledge of the similarities and differences between them – brilliant.
Share the dice game and get creative, have fun as you share your discoveries about the coin’s properties and lots of maths language.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning about even and odd numbers.
24 The Even Chase
Grounding your child’s understanding of odd and even numbers with their experience of odd socks is a brilliant example that the maths you share at home with your child can have a powerful impact on their understanding and attainment. I have worked with GCSE students unable to answer questions which mention even or odd because they become confused which is which.
Share the fun of the game for lots of opportunity to practice the skill of identifying numbers as even or odd.
Extend the learning with an activity that you can share anywhere anytime.
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Fun family maths activities learning to talk about differences and similarities.
25 Animal sort
Deciding how to group objects together is an important mathematical skill that will help your child to apply logical thought to their maths and much more.
You’ll be giving your child a head start in logical thinking by handling familiar objects at home rather than starting the learning journey with abstract pictures in a workbook or on a screen.
By your sharing of these activities with your child, they will learn the language of sorting, similarities, and differences – brilliant.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning about subtraction in a practical way
26 Currant Buns
When two numbers are subtracted from one another there are lots of reasonable ways to get the wrong answer.
Have fun trying out different versions of the number rhyme five currant buns and your child’s prior understanding of subtraction will be cleverly revealed in a fun way - no test needed!
By talking with your child as you play the subtraction game with one pence coins and the context of the purse grid they will have a clear basis for subtraction - lots of actual practical taking away. This is so valuable to your child as the memory will remain in your child’s subconscious to help with every abstract subtraction ‘sum’.
With currant buns for a theme, cooking is a perfect final activity to really solidify that maths learning.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning to partition numbers in different ways.
27 Car Race
Starting with an answer and finding all the different sums that equal that answer is a brilliant way to learn about how sums work because it helps you to discover patterns and links that in turn make new brain connections. Jo Boaler, who has been at the forefront of maths education research for many years, says “it helps your brain grow”.
Based on this theory, start the learning with a strong foundation handling a range of objects, play the number board game, and your child will have lots of opportunity to grow their understanding of addition and number.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning about doubles.
28 Spider’s web doubles
Enjoy some creative maths fun to get the learning started.
Play the doubles dice game and share the excitement when you score a double! The dotty dice and the conversation you share will help your child remember that for example, double six is twelve.
This alone is a great help when your child is learning addition facts but these games and activities offer a whole lot more. By seeing, for example, six dots on both dice, your child will experience a powerful real life example of the fundamental relationship between addition and multiplication.
Your child will also be able to draw upon a knowledge of doubles to make the task of learning lots of times tables facts a whole lot easier.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning about number words up to ten.
29 Car Chase
Get the maths learning started by sharing the reading of some classic number rhymes.
Get creative and by helping your child relate number words to things which have special special meaning to them you will harness the learning power of working individually, making maths real to them.
Have fun playing variations of the number words game and you will be supporting your child through several new levels of learning.
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Fun family maths activities counting objects up to twenty.
Counting 20
Your child will have a strong foundation to build on if they can develop a feel for numbers, for this will enable your child to have a much better idea if the answers they work out are sensible or not, and that counts for a lot. Estimating and counting everyday objects inside and out will offer wonderful opportunities to start this learning journey. Play games with one pence coins and your child will have lots of opportunity to practise accurate touch counting as well as a purpose to try out patterns and strategies to count larger amounts more easily.
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Fun family maths activities and board game practising take away.
Piggy bank
When two numbers are subtracted from one another there are lots of reasonable ways to get the wrong answer.
By talking with your child as you play with one pence coins and the context of change the initial piggy bank games offer a clear basis to subtraction - lots of actual practical taking away. This is so valuable to your child as the memory will remain in your child’s subconscious mind to help with every abstract ‘sum’.
Still very practical, the final game, a classic with a twist, will take the learning to the next level as your child is challenged to count from memory.
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Fun family maths card games counting in twos and recognising odd and even numbers.
Counting in twos
Grounding your child’s understanding of odd and even numbers with their experience of an odd shoe is a clever way of remembering a piece of maths language that can otherwise cause lasting confusion.
Have fun colouring and playing with the cards to make full use of the powerful images. Develop the play to help your child to become familiar with the pattern of even numbers and the pattern of odd numbers so that sorting them to 20 and beyond will then be a much more straightforward task.
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Fun family maths activities and board games learning about coins 10s and 1s.
Buy a treat
It will help your child's maths in lots of ways if they can develop a feel for 24 as two tens and four ones. Play with just ten pence and one pence coins, combine with a large spoon and then a game board and there will be lots of handling and counting totals to help your child make this link in a fun way.
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Fun family maths lotto game counting forwards and backwards in 10s.
Number tracks
Share the exploration of what happens when you count forwards and backwards in tens and your child’s understanding of patterns in our number system will be strengthened. These patterns can be incredibly helpful to your child’s number work both now and well into their future. Chanting is a long established aid to learning but by chanting in turns with your child you will be taking the learning to a much higher level and having a laugh too. These games will also help your child to start to become familiar with a hundred square, a tool widely used in schools, particularly useful for this task.
Make the learning relevant to your child by searching through some old family photos. They’ll be lots of opportunity to talk about numbers and a whole lot more!
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Fun family maths card games and board games ordering numbers.
Order Chase
By making a number track together and using colour to emphasize pattern you will really be helping your child with their maths. In our number system patterns in the numbers from 1-10 are then repeated. As your child starts to use the pattern and similarities they will have a real head start for number work with 11-20 and beyond. The second game is especially designed for you to have fun whilst powerfully helping your child move from being able to see the numbers on the track to creating mental images of their position. You can choose a version of the final game depending on your child’s interests. As well as offering practice in ordering numbers, jumping along the track is also a brilliant way to help your child develop that important feel for numbers.
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Fun family maths activities and board games learning addition facts.
Clown additions
Addition is often modelled as jumps forward on a number line. This model will have a firm footing! as you share some physical jumping with this first activity. This activity is another of those maths experiences that is so valuable for you to share with your child at home, it simply can’t happen in a workbook or on a screen.
When you add two numbers using only 0-6 there are still forty nine different sums. These addition games will offer lots of opportunity to discover and talk about the patterns that link these sums making the task of remembering all forty nine more manageable. To be fun, banish fear and encourage understanding, the main game is cleverly designed so that you find a sum to match an answer rather than starting with a sum.
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Fun family maths activities and lotto game recognising number words up to twenty.
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.
Get the maths learning started by getting creative as you share drawing some mini pictures. For the next stage have a go at matching numeral cards to the number words presented in order before moving onto playing a lotto game. Your child will be able to practise writing number words making some new lotto boards and playing with fonts on the computer.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning about shape and pattern.
Butterly Patterns
There is so much maths all around us. By simply noticing it and talking about it with your child you will be doing a brilliant job helping them.
These shape and pattern activities help you to get started with a bear hunt turning into a pattern hunt- you’ll probably be surprised what you find! Look out for a butterfly and marvel at its symmetry.
By colouring the butterfly cards together and then sharing the pattern matching memory game you will have a valuable opportunity to naturally share some of the many words we use for shape and pattern.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning pairs of numbers with a total of ten.
Abacus with ten beads
Share the maths in searching out the amazing wonders of nature outside and/or hiding objects around a room and your child will have lots of experience of handling and counting a number of objects and working out in a meaningful way how many still need to be found to total ten. The language that you naturally share will be extraordinarily valuable – consider how many different phrases we use to mean the same thing- five and five makes ten, five add five makes ten, double five is ten, five add five equals ten, the sum of five and five is ten, add two fives and you get ten, if you have five you need five more to make ten, the total of five and five is ten…….Linked to the context of real objects it can all make sense, whilst without this experience, written in a workbook or on a screen it’s a whole lot more challenging.
Counters to feel for, linked with strong visual pictures on the page, offer more powerful learning opportunities in the next game. Complete the maths learning with a classic classroom activity, with a fun twist.
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Fun family maths activities and dominoes game ordering numbers up to thirty.
Number track dominoes
Counting one, two…..thirty can be learned as a rhyme. Chanting whilst doing an action will encourage your child to develop some powerful brain connections with the numbers. Have a laugh when it goes wrong! To follow on, play with the dominoes and create the sequence of numbers. The patterns reveal themselves as you play, taking the learning to the next level. A really good familiarity with these patterns will make the sequence of even bigger numbers, make more sense to your child.
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Fun family maths activities and games learning to subtract by counting back.
Flip the counter
Children find subtraction sums much more difficult than adults might expect. When objects are physically taken away it makes sense but even when there is still some support – maybe a number line, it’s very common for children to find a way to justify an incorrect answer. Play these subtraction games using the support of an innovative number chase number line and your child will be guided away from common errors made when a number line is used for counting back.
The final game will really help your child develop a feel for number. This is so important because they will then know, if the answer they work out for a sum, makes sense or if they need to do some more puzzling.
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Fun family maths activities card game and board game learning learning one more and one less.
One more three in a row
Mastery of just the addition of two numbers and only using numbers up to 20 means learning 20x20 = 400 sums. The task multiplies to 10,000 sums with just addition using numbers up to 100 and then there’s subtraction and...For this task it is not healthy for anyone's brain to use memory alone. Instead, if your child remembers some addition sums and knows the patterns in our number system, they can use their amazingly powerful brain to work out any sum almost instantaneously. Knowing one more can be very helpful, for example to do 9+11, follow the pattern for adding 10 and 9+10 =19, then adjust knowing 9+11 is one more than 9+10.
You might have chanted “five, four, three, two, one, blast off”. Do some chanting with a twist to help your child start discovering one more and one less. When I play the second game I have a job to shout GERONIMO quick enough, hope you fare better! In the next game your child is challenged to make a choice- very powerful for learning. Finally extend the learning with a spotting game adding some fun maths to any journey.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning ordinal numbers.
Past the finish
Pass on the maths learning with this first activity designed to offer you and your child lots of opportunity to use the words first, second...tenth (ordinal numbers), in a meaningful way, and just maybe also lead to two quite different eating experiences!
Further games with game boards to colour and write on will support your child to become more confident reading, writing and understanding both the word e.g. second and the number e.g. 2nd versions. Ooooo there’s another word ‘second’ that has double meaning just in maths!
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Fun family maths activities and card games finding in between numbers up to thirty.
Piggy in the middle
Building upon earlier activities these number games and activities will help your child to extend their knowledge of the patterns in our number system up to thirty.
Play with your child handling the number cards, move them around, talk about the numbers together, hide some of them and your child will have lots of support and opportunity to learn the order of the numbers and the patterns that can help you to remember the order.
With more numbers missing from the sequence the second game develops this maths learning to the next level.
Play with hidden coins in the final game and there may be some surprising results!
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning addition facts.
Addition hands
When your child becomes confident with 3+4, 2+7, 6+2..(totals up to ten) they will have the foundations to do any addition sum and a whole lot more. Get the maths learning journey started with an activity you can have fun with anywhere, anytime. This game can generate thousands of sums but still offers the support of something special that will always be there to hold - your fingers. There will be lots more opportunity to memorise the number facts as you have fun playing lotto games with picture support and then without. Finally get creative, you might even have to help your child get messy, and print some picture sums to treasure.
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning about basic shapes.
Shape sort
Share cutting out and handling lots of two dimensional shapes with your child and there will be lots of opportunity for maths talk about corners, sides, size… the foundations of the mathematical language of shape. Hide part of a shape and create a challenging puzzle, where there will be lots of wrong guesses. Experiencing these ‘safe mistakes’ in the context of a game will be brilliant- mistakes support your child’s understanding to grow much stronger. By playing the next game with a special shape dice, the concepts are practised back to front!
Watch out for tickles in the final game!
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Fun family maths activities and dots and boxes games learning about numbers up to fifty.
Join the dots to 50
Any number grid is a powerful learning tool to help your child see the patterns in our number system. Play these number games with your child and they will get to know the top half ‘a hundred square’, widely used in schools, with their eyes closed! A second game based on the 1-50 grid 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 fifty.
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Fun family maths activities and board game adding by counting on.
The chase adding two numbers
Through modern brain imaging we now know that if you do something rather than being told about it, new brain connections are made thirty times easier. Get the maths learning started with activities involving actions that represent odd and even numbers and then create some pictures for visual support too.
Share playing the dice game and your child will experience lots and lots of addition practise in a fun way. Just by playing this one game you can take your child through a powerful development progression using different levels of support- counters that can be moved, dice dots that can be pointed to and when your child is truly comfortable with memory alone.
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Fun family maths activities and games comparing numbers.
More or less
Being confident about how each number relates to other numbers is fundamental to addition and subtraction and a whole lot more. These number games take you through a development progression using objects that can be handled to start, moving on to use a number track and finally using abstract mathematical symbols.Talking about your choices as you play the games will encourage your child to develop a really thorough understanding of number relationships. Celebrate when you find it hard to win, it’s because their mathematical skill and confidence have grown!
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Fun family maths activities and dice games adding three numbers.
Dice extravaganza
More powerful brain connections can be made as we do things with your eyes closed. Can you count objects with your eyes closed? Have fun trying in the first addition game!
Playing any dice game with your child will really help them with maths. Share these dice games with your child and you will be taking them through a powerful progression of maths learning, in a relaxed way, just by using a variety of different dice.
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Fun family maths activities and board game finding the difference between two numbers.
Three in a row difference
Finding the difference between two numbers written on a page affords lots of opportunity for confusion. Get creative and by drawing together you will really help your child with a memorable context for the difference between two numbers. By playing with real life objects in the game, you will share an experience of maths very valuable to your child. 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. Make the brain connections work in the abstract with a very challenging eyes closed game as a finale.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning about fractions.
Fractions to eat
I’ve met very talented ‘A’ level maths students who freeze when they see a fraction. Play these games to introduce your child to fractions in a fun, more natural way and you will be sharing something so very valuable to their maths education. 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. The real life objects that your child will handle will make brain connections that into their future will offer powerful imaginary pictures of fractions, always available to connect and make sense of further learning. There will be lots to enjoy eating too!
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Fun family maths activities and dice game learning addition facts.
Roll the dice addition
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 have fun and play with some edible treats to find all the different ways to add two numbers, to get 9 for example, and by arranging real life objects your child will discover very helpful patterns and connections. Play the dice games and your child will be doing many many addition sums without the fear of “doing a sum wrong.”
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Fun family maths activities and board game learning to count in tens and twenties.
Tens and twenties all in a row
Have fun with these number games and support your child to relate their comprehensive knowledge of numbers up to one hundred, to move further on, to work with numbers up to two hundred. Just by playing one game you can take your child through a powerful development progression using different levels of support- toy bricks or sticks that can be handled, pictures that can be pointed to and when your child is truly comfortable playing without any physical or visual support.
In the ‘all in a row’ game your child is challenged to make a choice- very powerful for maths learning.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning addition facts up to a total of twenty.
Beat the calculator additions
There are lots of different opinions about when calculators should be introduced to young children. These addition games take you on a journey of discovery so that your child can compare when a calculator is most helpful. Alternative support is offered by a slavonic grid with really special visuals which link with our brains ability to see five objects without counting but no more. The slavonic abacus has proved a brilliant support for children with dyslexia and discalculia and with such powerful imagery your child will certainly benefit too.
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Fun family maths activities and board game subtracting a number of tens.
Octagon subtraction
As you play the first game your child’s understanding of subtraction will be taken to the next level when you can’t see, only hear the coins being taken away! Make and use the number track resource so that your child will be supported to develop powerful mental ‘pictures’ of 10,20...200. Try out different variations of the main game. The elements of choice will really help your child to discover the pattern of these numbers.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning about time o’clock and half past.
Time memory game
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 involving times important to your day. Finish off by doing some estimation, a really useful skill that can underpin so much of maths.
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Fun family maths activities and card game learning subtraction facts for numbers up to ten.
Beat the calculator subtraction
There are lots of different opinions about when calculators should be introduced to young children. These subtraction games take you on a journey of discovery so that your child can compare when a calculator is most helpful. There is a very important difference between an addition sum and a subtraction sum- the order of the numbers matters in a subtraction sum. This phenomena is powerfully explored in the context of the game as you arrange cards on the game board. Have a laugh with the final story game.
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in mid year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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!
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in mid year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in mid year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in mid year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in mid year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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?
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in late year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in late year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in late year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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.
To help a child with maths age 6 to 7. Most of content covered in late year 2 maths curriculum UK
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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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