Easter Holiday Maths
Build Your Child's Mathematical Confidence with Easter Fun Activities

Egg box ten frame

Your child will probably have seen a plastic ten frame at school looking exactly like an egg box! Ten frames have become popular in recent years as a powerful visual tool to help children understand numbers to 10 and beyond.
Use the arrows to move through the pictures at your own pace.

★ Pass it on ★ Take turns to shout out how many eggs you can see. On your turn, talk about how you know, for example say "I can see six eggs, I know because there are five filling the top row and one more in the bottom row, one more than five is six." . On your child's turn ask e.g."How do you know?"

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Part-whole activities

Explore how numbers can be split into parts with these Easter egg photos. Spot the differences between the eggs in the photos and you can see different ways of making each number. For example 6 eggs could be 5 small and 1 big, 4 without spots and 2 with spots, or 3 gold and 3 not gold.

Play the spot the difference game

☺Take turns
☺ Player 1 secretly decides on a difference and says e.g."I spy with my little eye six is three and three"
☺ Player 2 tries to figure out the matching difference

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4 different Easter eggs for part-whole activity

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8 different Easter eggs for part-whole activity

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9 different Easter eggs for part-whole activity

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Learn more about the part-whole model

Become Sum detectives

Ask "What sum can you see?"

And you get to share some magical maths learning precisely because there is no one right answer.

Try lots more sum detecting!

Turn an egg box into a ten frame and supercharge your child's understanding of numbers up to 10

Play egg box Cheeky Chicken

This game helps your child:

Subitise numbers to 10
Add numbers to 10
Find different ways to make e.g.10

You will need:

an egg box that held ten eggs (or 12 with the end cut off) for each player
pebbles/lego bricks/miniature toys

☺ Each player secretly places a few pebbles in their egg box and closes the lid

☺ Say "cheap,cheap,cheap" and each open your box.

☺ Race to say "cheeky chick" if two boxes contain the same number, "one more chick" if one box contains one more or "double the chicks" if one box contains double another.

★ Pass it on ★ You could !...make it easier for your child by arranging your pebbles along the top row and from left to right in the second row. Talk about how you quickly worked out how many pebbles there were. For example "I can see five in the top row and one in the bottom row , I can see six" Learn more about subitising