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

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.

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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